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| FAQ Item Punctuation Q. Apparently from now on the ellipsis has been banned. Which punctuation... |
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| an ellipsis, which looks awful to me: “I wouldn’t go so far as to call myself an expe- . . .” A. The... |
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| with three dots and a lowercase word. Does this violate the general rule not to use ellipsis points... |
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| ellipsis, can one arrange the order of sentences differently from how they appear in the book? Could one... |
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| mean? Often I find this [. . .] within a quote. Does this mean that there is an ellipsis in the... |
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| FAQ Item Punctuation Q. I would love to have your take on an ellipsis problem. I have my children’s... |
Ellipses with Periods (CMOS 13.53) - CMOS Shop Talk
| 13.53 in the Spotlight When words are left out of a quotation, an ellipsis of three dots...(grammatically speaking), a period comes before the ellipsis (for a total of four dots). Readers will pause at...the period, as in quotations 2 and 3. The first word after an ellipsis is capitalized if it begins... |
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| this: what is the appropriate use of punctuation with the ellipsis in dialogue? A. In your first... ellipsis merely to indicate a voice or thought trailing off, you would not use the period with it: “I’m...not sure . . .”) By convention, this period is placed before the ellipsis, not after, so if there... |
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| on either side of an ellipsis in the middle of a line when using the Unicode ellipsis rather than...says that authors can use the ellipsis character in their manuscripts instead of spaced ellipses...be valid when used consistently. But when you’re using an ellipsis character (or unspaced periods... |
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| placed next to each other. I think this looks rather clumsy. Could I put ellipsis points between...case here? Or should ellipsis points only be used if the original order of the quoted parts is...retained? A. Ellipsis points are an option only when quotes are in the correct order and fairly near... |
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