noun

• The omission of a verb in the second of two coordinated clauses, as in I went by bus and Mary by car.

  ‘The paradigmatic case of gapping, also known as verb medial gapping, is represented by examples like (1.4)3.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘It has been claimed in the literature that gapping is prohibited in Chinese.’

  Synonyms

  leaving out, exclusion, exception, non-inclusion, deletion, erasure, cut, excision, elimination, absence