“省略”在现行初中英语教材(人民教育出版社)中随处可见,可以说变化多端,用法灵活,使用广泛。那么何谓“省略”?“省略”就是将句子中一个或多个成分省去,避免重复,使语言简练紧凑的一种语法手段。在英语中,凡是能省去的词语通常都应省去,这样不仅能使句子更加精练,而且还可起到连接上下文并强调相邻词语的作用。省略的形式可以是单词、短语或分句;从句子成分的视角可以是主语、谓语、表语、宾语和状 “Omitted ” in the existing junior high school English textbook (People’s Education Press) can be seen everywhere, changing, flexible and widely used. So what is meant by “omission”? “Omission” is a grammatical means of eliminating one or more of the components of a sentence, avoiding repetition and making the language concise and compact. In English, words that can be omitted are usually omitted, not only to make the sentence more refined, but also to connect the context and emphasize the role of adjacent words. Omitted forms can be words, phrases, or clauses; from the perspective of a sentence component can be subject, predicate, epigraph, object, and form