I have just read Stuart's comment here:
What is unacceptably long in speech is different from what is unacceptably long in a formal document e.g. a legal contract. On the other hand, when spoken you can use prosody to clarify structure in a way that you can't in writing, so it's not that clear cut.
The acceptable length of the intermediate chunk in the structure 'an/the + [intermediate chunk] + Participle I/II + Noun'
To follow this pattern, one would conclude that these sentences are perfectly idiomatic - so are they?
- She must come in the morning and he must in the evening.
- She will come by car and he will on foot.
- Did she work lazily and did he happily?
- She can arrive in Paris by five and he can in London by seven.
- She didn't take the medicine after meal and he didn't before one.
- You may take the interview remotely and he may in person only.
- He shouldn't swim in the river in the way that he should in a swimming pool.
What style would these carry?
As to prosody, isn't ellipting the main verb marked by a slight pause and change of pitch?