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parasitic gaps

parasitic gaps is the plural of parasitic gap.

Meaning of parasitic gap

Noun

parasitic gap (plural parasitic gaps)

  1. A construction wherein the dropping of an argument is dependent on a covarying argument having been fronted in a local context, as in "Which book did she review without reading?".

Questions about parasitic gaps

What is parasitic gaps the plural of?
Parasitic gaps is the plural of parasitic gap.

Words near parasitic gaps in the dictionary

  1. parasitic drag
  2. parasitic drags
  3. parasitic element
  4. parasitic elements
  5. parasitic gap
  6. parasitic gaps
  7. parasitic jaeger
  8. parasitical
  9. parasitically
  10. parasiticalness
  11. parasiticidal

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