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' leave out ' [1]), rendered ..., alternatively described as suspension points [2]: 19 /dots, points [2]: 19 /periods of ellipsis, or ellipsis points, [2]: 19 or colloquially, dot-dot-dot, [3] [4] is a punctuation mark consisting of a series of three dots. An ellipsis can be used in many ways, such as for intentional omission of text or numbers ...
Section 2.1 (Ellipsis in English) contains the following statement: An ellipsis at the end of a sentence with no sentence following should be followed by a period (for a total of four dots). However, there is such a thing as a four-dot ellipsis. A four-dot ellipsis is required for the removal of more than one word.
I think the article should use 3 dot ellipsis (to be consistent with the article on ellipsis) but comment on the frequent appearance of 4 dot ellipsis. --Walter Siegmund 17:26, 22 January 2006 (UTC) It is four dots. Watch the film - the credits at the beginning and end give the title consistently with four dots, and that's really the only ...
Ellipsis (linguistics), the omission from a clause of words otherwise syntactically required by remaining elements; Verb phrase ellipsis, an elliptical construction in which a verb phrase has been left out (elided)
“The dot-dot-dot is trying to be casual,” she stresses. When in doubt, overcommunicate As someone of either generation, how can we be more mindful of these communication quirks?
Noun ellipsis (also N-ellipsis, N'-ellipsis, NP-ellipsis, NPE, ellipsis in the DP) occurs when the noun and potentially accompanying modifiers are omitted from a noun phrase. [1] Nominal ellipsis occurs with a limited set of determinatives in English (cardinal and ordinal numbers and possessive determiners), though it is much freer in other ...
Matt Short and Aaron Hardie will play at their first ICC tournament after being named Monday in Australia's 15-man squad for the Champions Trophy which begins next month in Pakistan and the UAE.
One data point to consider: four years ago, Donald Trump’s net favorability among independents was a whopping minus-22 (35% favorable to 57% unfavorable). Today, it is a negligible minus-5 (42% ...