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This paper investigates the interaction between VP Ellipsis and Pseudo-gapping construction, as well as the previous approaches on Pseudo-gapping in English. There are mainly two approaches on Pseudo-gapping construction in English. They are VP Ellipsis approach and VP Movement one. Although each approach has merits and faults, after taking all the elliptical phenomena in English as the natural language into consideration, I argue that the VP Ellipsis approach is more persuasive than the VP Movement approach. It shows that Gapping and Pseudo-gapping in English can be explained coherently as PF ellipsis through strong feature-checking and that the problems derived from it can be solved by the eclectic approach. This applies to both verbal ellipsis and Across-The-Board movement. In addition, it shows that both Gapping and Pesudo-gapping can be explained unitedly by EPP and Multiple Spell-out. However, if there are basically syntactic differences between VP Ellipsis and Pseudo-gapping, it is arguable whether the elided form of VP comes from the result of VP Ellipsis or the phonologically empty VP Pro-form.