Asking for help

[Mohamad Zaki Hussein]

Dear Zouhair,

Thank you very much for your responses. Some comments below:

> Also in this sentence: "Should we observe
> or shoot the enemy", must we said that there is an 'implicit goal' in the
> first
> clause (Should we observe), so that it will sound  like this: "Should we
> observe
> (the enemy) or shoot the enemy? Should we consider the goal as 'implicit' or
> 'absent'?
>
> This is what Halliday and Hasan (1976) call ellipsis, which is required for
> cohesion. Non-technically, the first occurrence of "the enemy" is elided
> because it can be recovered therough a simple mathematical associativity
> operation like you did it in "Should we observe (the enemy) or shoot the
> enemy? since the goal is the same for both processes.

So what do you think about the elided word, could we categorize it as 'implicit
meaning'?

Anyway, for the other members of this list, I'm still looking for 'other
opinions' regarding my questions for comparison.

I think that's all. Thank you very much.

Regards,
Zaki