Re: Ellipsis (was: Re: Italian Particles)

->> "Take!" is impossible for me; it has to be "Take it!".  As for "Give!",
>> that is possible in a situation of begging (the Bible says:
>> "The horse-leech has two daughters, crying, Give, give)".
>
>Are you sure that's native English syntax?  I find "give" in an imperative
>without at least one argument stilted, and without two in declarative
>sentence sounds strange as well.>

In context and colloquially, one or zero arguments with "give" seems OK:

(people came around soliciting money for something or other)
 "But I didn't give"  or  "I gave a dollar".  And of course, "I gave at the
office".