Malcolm Gladwell, “Offensive Play”, New Yorker 10/19/09, p. 52, quoting a football player: (1) “They cleared me for practice that Thursday. I probably shouldn’t have. I don’t know what damage I did from that, because my head was really hurting.” “I probably shouldn’t have ___” contains an instance of Verb Phrase Ellipsis (VPE); the underlines … Continue reading Ellipsis on an island