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The article describes the usage of ellipsis in the headlines of newspapers written in English. A number of headlines with this phenomenon were analyzed, the most effective and often used types of ellipsis were pointed out. The very concept of “ellipsis” has appeared in linguistics since ancient times and is still being refined. Therefore, to begin with, we will analyze the definitions of ellipsis in English, because there are many approaches to its definition. The omission of the subject is not very common - we found 12 examples (6%) of the omission of the subject. And the most rarely used type of ellipsis turned out to be the absence of an introductory verb when citing, only two headings met this criterion (1%). |