... carried on into the modern Germanic language where these specific omissions are still prevalent today. It is illustrated in the article in "The Latin Imprint on Emily Dickinson's Poetry" that famous writers such as Emily Dickinson and William Shakespeare are especially known for their use of ... ellipsis's. These writers, and more of their time were applying the Latin rule to English Grammatical Structure called an enallage: "Enallage is a change of words, or substitution of one gender, number, case, person, ... 'understood'. Ellipsis in non-standard speech. Non-standard speech is chara...

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