Ellipsis is the omission of elements that are usually required by grammar
which are considered by speakers or researchers not to be mentioned. Ellipsis
divided into three types: nominal, verbal and clausal. This research aims to
describe what ellipsis in the last of us movie and what the dominance ellipsis
found.
A descriptive qualitative was used in this research. The Research Object
of this research is the last of us movie episode 1 with duration of 1 hour 20
minute. Furthermore, the data were collected documentation then step in analysed
the data: collecting the data, data reduction, data display and conclusions. Then
percentage it to find the dominance ellipsis used.
The result of this research show three types of ellipsis clauses are found in The
Last of Us movie script: nominal ellipsis, verbal ellipsis and clausal ellipsis. All
the ellipsis clauses that find in the movie are 55 clauses. They are consist of:
Clausal ellipsis with the amount of 38, Verbal ellipsis with the amount of 10,
Nominal ellipsis with the amount of 14. Clausal ellipsis is the most dominant type
of ellipsis clauses in The last of us movie script in the first episode with the
number 38.