Is there ellipsis in this sentence?

[sophiehhrr]

There is a severe shortage of mathematics teachers in Britain and America. As a consequence of this, far too many people leave school without any interest in pursuing the study of subjects like engineering that rely on mathematical concepts. Two solutions are available. Firstly, it should be a priority to train more teachers. Secondly, teachers’ salaries should be made competitive with other jobs in order to attract people to the profession.

I've been looking and I've got really stuck. I don't mean the ellipsis as in the '...' and its just got me so confused.

 

[Raymott]

There is a severe shortage of mathematics teachers in Britain and America. As a consequence of this, far too many people leave school without any interest in pursuing the study of subjects like engineering that rely on mathematical concepts. Two solutions are available. Firstly, it should be a priority to train more teachers. Secondly, teachers’ salaries should be made competitive with other jobs in order to attract people to the profession.

I've been looking and I've got really stuck. I don't mean the ellipsis as in the '...' and its just got me so confused.

There's an ellipsis in the following sentence:
Secondly, teachers’ salaries should be made competitive with other jobs.

 

[MASM]

There's an ellipsis in the following sentence:
Secondly, teachers’ salaries should be made competitive with other jobs.

Could you please tell me where? I can't see what's missing

 

[Raymott]

Could you please tell me where? I can't see what's missing

Let's give sophie a chance to find it. Otherwise, I'll tell all tomorrow.

 

[emsr2d2]

Let's give sophie a chance to find it. Otherwise, I'll tell all tomorrow.

Then I'll look forward to the answer too! Either the definition that I know of an ellipsis has changed or I'm missing something, because I certainly can't see one written in that sentence! I can see where words could be inserted and it's not a grammatically perfect sentence, but...!!

 

[MASM]

I've just thought about something!...I'll wait until the answer comes to see if I'm right. I'm very interested!:-D

 

[Abstract Idea]

There's an ellipsis in the following sentence:
Secondly, teachers’ salaries should be made competitive with other jobs.

What's exactly an ellipsis?
Is it to find something missing?
Maybe ...

... should be made competitive with the corresponding salaries of other jobs?

 

[Abstract Idea]

I have found some interesting stuff here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis_(linguistics)

I've just thought about something!...I'll wait until the answer comes to see if I'm right. I'm very interested!:-D

What have you found MASM? I am curious too.

 

[MASM]

I'm waiting for the original poster to answer as Raymott indicated :-D, but I'm curious about it too!

 

[Abstract Idea]

Hmm, it seems ellipsis is a "figure of speech", and there are many many others!
Take a look for instance at Figure of speech - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia for an enormous list.

 

[Abstract Idea]

There's an ellipsis in the following sentence:
Secondly, teachers’ salaries should be made competitive with other jobs.

What about

Secondly, teachers' salaries should be made competitive with other jobs' salaries ?

 

[MASM]

Hmm, it seems ellipsis is a "figure of speech", and there are many many others!
Take a look for instance at Figure of speech - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia for an enormous list.

Yes, linguistics..fantastic and complicated world! :-D

 

[Raymott]

What about

Secondly, teachers' salaries should be made competitive with other jobs' salaries ?

Yes. Good work :-D
Teachers' salaries should be competitive with [the salaries of] other jobs.
It's an ellipsis because something has been left out.

 

[MASM]

:-D