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Ellipsis and substitution: avoiding repetition

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Use one or ones for a repeated countable noun, do or does for a repeated action, and so after verbs such as think or hope when it refers to a whole earlier statement. Use ellipsis when the missing words are obvious from the nearby sentence.

I need a smaller suitcase, but I cannot find one.
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