Okay, it's been more than three days since my last grammar rant. I think I'm entitled to a new one. This one is all about...ellipsis. If you don't know what ellipsis are, well, you just saw a set of them. They are the little dot-dot-dots. Here's a link for anyone who doesn't understand their usage: Grammar Girl--Ellipsis This rant is about ellipses at the end of sentences. It seems that every writer I've encountered lately doesn't understand that when an ellipses is at the end of a sentence, you still punctuate that sentence as you normally would.
That is, the three dots are the ellipses. If a sentence ends in an ellipses that is a question, it would be marked ...? Exclamation point ...! Period ....
To clarify, three dots and a question mark, three dots and an exclamation point, three dots and a period.
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