Showing posts with label grammar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grammar. Show all posts

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Grammar Rant...Ellipses

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.