Sunday, December 16, 2018

sentence construction - What about you?




  • Amy: What day is it today?

  • Tom: It's Monday. Hmm... I like Monday.

  • Amy: What do you have today?

  • Tom: We have math, science and art.What about you?


  • Amy: We have English and P.E. What do you have tomorrow?

  • Tom: We have art and P.E.tomorrow.

  • Amy: Oh, great.



I can understand that "What about you" means "What do you have today?" But I wonder whether "What about you" is an elliptical sentence. If it is, what is the full sentence? If it isn't, how to parse this structure?




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