What is a word meaning to omit a word from a sentance?
Answers:
do you mean like - omission?
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Verb 1. omit - prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece"
exclude, leave out, leave off, except, take out
do away with, eliminate, get rid of - terminate or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"
elide - leave or strike out; "This vowel is usually elided before a single consonant"
Do you mean to ask-- "What does it mean "to omit" a word from a sentence?" I don't know, I think that's what you were trying to ask. It means to leave out. If you are asking what word has the exact meaning "to omit a word from a sentence" I'd like to know if there is such a word with that specific meaning.
omit means leave out.
If you have a sentence with a missing word (say for a puzzle or a school test) it's called a cloze sentence. EG:
'A cloze sentence is one with a ___ word'
Wikipedia defines it more thoroughly, see below.
delete
Ellipsis
as in:
She asked if she may leave and went away.
which you would usually use instead of:
She asked if she may leave and she went away.
I'm not sure what [.] mean?
remove
Ellipsis - and you really should spell sentence correctly if you are going to use this rather advanced grammatical terminology!
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