Correct usage ellipsis and sentence structure.
I love his look, his expressions...everything about him, way cool and wonderful.
I saw her in a café a couple of years ago ...certainly looking older than I remember her ... but hey we all age and she still looked amazing ... always loved seeing her on tv she was so watchable.
Are the ellipsis accurate in these examples ? The sentence stops after amazing and uses the ellipsis before always connecting the clauses together. And also on the bolded clause, are the ellipsis acting like bracketing commas? Is this accurate?
Can you have way cool and wonderful as an adjacent phrase here also ?
How should both these sentences look ?
Top answer
May I ask how you would write this without ellipsis? If you do that, then you can more easily decide which words you want to omit.
- May I ask how you would write this without ellipsis?
- If you do that, then you can more easily decide which words you want to omit.
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May I ask how you would write this without ellipsis?
If you do that, then you can more easily decide which words you want to omit.
0I would use the em-dash instead. —
Ellipsis dots are meant to show missing words, especially in a quote.
As Patrick Henry once said, "... liberty, or ... death!"
(Give me liberty, or give me death! is the actual quote.)
CJ
0"Way cool and wonderful" is actually quite good if that's the voice you want to give the sentence, rather airheaded.
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