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Grammar
Punctuation
I've read a sentence:
The questions are labelled by 1,2,3....
How many dots at the end of the sentence? What if in the middle?
Thanks!
The questions are labelled by 1,2,3....
How many dots at the end of the sentence? What if in the middle?
Thanks!
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At the end, four dots. In the middle, three dots. It's really always three dots for omitted material, because at the end, the fourth dot is the period at the end of the sentence!
- At the end, four dots.
- In the middle, three dots.
- It's really always three dots for omitted material, because at the end, the fourth dot is the period at the end of the sentence!
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At the end, four dots. In the middle, three dots.
It's really always three dots for omitted material, because at the end, the fourth dot is the period at the end of the sentence!
It's really always three dots for omitted material, because at the end, the fourth dot is the period at the end of the sentence!
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An ellipsis, according to one style guide, consists of three dots. The first dot is adjacent (no space) to the preceding word (or number, in your case). There is then a space between each of the 1st and 2nd dots, and the 2nd and 3rd dots. Immediately following the 3rd dot comes either a period to end the statement, or the beginning of the next word.
It looks like this. . . . Or it m
It looks like this. . . . Or it m
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I didn't know the bit about spaces between dots. Personally, I never use the spaces. Too fussy! And I finished my time in academia so I probably won't need to use all the finicky rules ever again!
Nice illustration of the latest irregular verb to "sneak" into our language, by the way!
Nice illustration of the latest irregular verb to "sneak" into our language, by the way!
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