{"id":2091,"date":"2011-05-23T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T04:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=2091"},"modified":"2013-06-03T14:50:57","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T04:50:57","slug":"three-dots-to-continue%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2011\/05\/three-dots-to-continue%e2%80%a6\/","title":{"rendered":"Three dots to continue\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-4514\" title=\"ellipsis_points\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/ellipsis_points.gif\" width=\"80\" height=\"49\" \/><a title=\"Wrongs meanings can eclipse the message\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2012\/02\/wrongs-meanings-can-eclipse-the-message\/\">Ellipsis points<\/a>, or suspension points, have a couple of uses, but they always come in threes.<\/p>\n<p>Although not generally used in <a title=\"when writing is important for business\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2011\/05\/when-writing-is-important-for-business\/\">business writing<\/a>, ellipsis points can be used to show a continuation or an undefined idea. This allows for the reader to complete the sentence in a number of ways which can create interest or indicate uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn&#8217;t sure what she meant, maybe it was a mistake\u2026\u201d (shows some confusion about how to react to her words)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sally called me yesterday and told me the news\u2026\u201d (makes the reader curious as to what the news is)<\/p>\n<p>Ellipses are also used to show some missing information in a quote. When quoting some text from elsewhere, it isn&#8217;t necessary to quote every word but it is also important to not misrepresent the text as being complete. Adding \u2026 between words indicates that part of the original is missing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAustralians all let us rejoice \u2026 Advance Australia Fair\u201d shows that some words are missing between those quoted.<\/p>\n<p>However, do not use ellipsis to change the meaning of the original text.<\/p>\n<p>Compare \u201cThe root of all evil is in the love of money\u201d and \u201cthe root of all evil is \u2026 money\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Note that the use of the ellipsis removes the <a title=\"which punctuation mark to use\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2010\/06\/which-punctuation-mark-do-i-use\/\">need for other punctuation<\/a>. If the original quote has a comma or full stop, this isn&#8217;t included next to the ellipsis. A question mark, <a title=\"using exclamation marks\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/07\/exclamation-marks\/\">exclamation mark<\/a> or <a title=\"quotation marks\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2007\/11\/quotation-marks\/\">quotation marks<\/a>, however, are included with the ellipsis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/writing-tips-ebook\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Word Constructions eBook to help you write better and more effectively\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wordconstructions.com.au\/images\/bannerimages\/writingtips_banner1.gif\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ellipsis points, or suspension points, have a couple of uses, but they always come in threes. Although not generally used in business writing, ellipsis points can be used to show a continuation or an undefined idea. This allows for the reader to complete the sentence in a number of ways which can create interest or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,60],"tags":[1245,524,1246,1247],"class_list":["post-2091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar-details-2","category-writing","tag-ellipsis","tag-interest","tag-missing","tag-uncertainty"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2091"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5898,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions\/5898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}