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rating: The ellipsis well punctuated

not every day we cast the bells ringing, but today is one of those days: newspaper Reforma -known nationally and internationally for putting their business interests to those of good journalism and the proper use of the Castilian language- has published a front-page headline that has two merits ( Reform , July 26, 2010). First, the owner does not start with a verb, a practice that is often thin the syntax and often unintelligible message back. Second, it raises a verbal ellipsis perfectly punctuated, not only weird thing in Reform but also in many other newspapers.

The headline reads: "By day are guilty, and at night, thugs." When we talk about verbal ellipsis , we mean the removal of a verb. So it is also called silent verb . A simple example of verbal ellipsis would be: "Yo, happy." Here should understand "I am happy" or "I'm happy." But it also occurs in more complex sentences such as this header. In fact, we have two serial sentences that share the same verb:

the day are inmates at night are killers.

serial rule tells us to put a comma (or conjunction) between any sentences in series. But to elide, or eliminate, the second verb for reasons of style, comes into play other rule: that of the ellipse. This tells us that we must put a comma instead of the verb elided, which would leave us with a confusing score:

the day are prisoners, of night killers.

What made newspaper Reforma -what they should do all the newspapers and all the editors in general when dealing with cases of ellipsis sentences serial-up category was the original point of the series became semicolon [;] . This clarifies then the meaning of the proposition:

the day are prisoners; of night killers.

As serial comma rule allows us to choose between the comma and the conjunction best suited to the case, instead of a semicolon [;], we could using the sequence of coma, followed by and [and] . This option is also very common:

the day are prisoners, and of night killers.

Either ways would be correct in cases of ellipsis. This second option is usually used when sentences are three or more serial:

In Colombia the drug is mixed with guerrilla in Mexico, with policy and in U.S. the economic structure at all levels.

Honor, then, to whom honor is due. From Writing without pain, blog congratulate the newspaper Reforma by, first, daring to start a headline without a verb, a practice that should be abandoned as soon as you start with the verb does not guarantee greater impact. On the contrary: it can produce an extremely confusing message. Second, we congratulate you for correctly rated verbal ellipsis construction of two sentences serials. Congratulations! More days of these!