** Reply to note from Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar              <[log in to unmask]>         Mon, 21 May 2001 15:08:45 -0700
I'll take a stab at it:

Elliptical clauses come from "be-deletion" and if there is no form of the verb "to be"
in the underlying clause, there's nothing to  (ahem!) 'ellipt.'

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