RiyaJain69 wrote:
But the following sentence is incorrect, because the subjects are not in the samenumber:
His diet was abstemious, his prayers long andfervent.
HiRiyaJain69,
1. You may be thinking about a subset of ellipsis where separate (but similar) elements are joined while omitting a word in the element(s) after the first. That word is usually a verb, as it is in your example. Once the first element is out of the way, the word(s) omitted in the other elements do not need to agree with the one
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