{"id":50,"date":"2007-07-17T02:21:47","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T02:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2021-02-03T17:15:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T23:15:27","slug":"ellipsis-marks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/ellipses\/ellipsis-marks\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellipsis Marks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ellipsis marks (three dots) are used to show the omission of a word, phrase, line, or paragraph(s), from a quoted passage. The plural of this word is <em>ellipses<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Three-dot Method<\/strong><br \/>\nThere are many methods for using ellipses. The three-dot method is the simplest and is appropriate for most general works and many scholarly ones. The three- or four-dot method and an even more rigorous method used in legal works require fuller explanations that can be found in reference books.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rule 1:<\/strong> Use ellipsis marks whether the omission occurs in the middle of a sentence or between sentences.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong> The regulation states, &#8220;All agencies must document overtime . . . \u201d<br \/>\n<strong>Original sentence:<\/strong> &#8220;All agencies must document overtime or risk losing federal funds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rule 2:<\/strong> You may leave out punctuation that precedes your ellipsis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong> Original sentence from Lincoln&#8217;s Gettysburg Address:<br \/>\n&#8220;Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rewritten using ellipses:<\/strong> &#8220;Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth . . . a new nation, conceived in liberty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rule 3:<\/strong> You do not need to use ellipses at the end of the quote even when words are missing, as in the above example.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rule 4:<\/strong> If your quoted material begins with the middle of a sentence, you don&#8217;t need to use the ellipsis marks in front.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong> Abraham Lincoln, in his Gettysburg address, said that &#8220;our fathers brought forth . . . a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rule 5:<\/strong> Use ellipsis marks with sentences that are meant to trail off.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong> &#8220;I thought that you might . . . &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ellipsis marks (three dots) are used to show the omission of a word, phrase, line, or paragraph(s), from a quoted passage. The plural of this word is ellipses. The Three-dot Method There are many methods for using ellipses. The three-dot method is the simplest and is appropriate for most general works and many scholarly ones. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ellipses"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}