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Ellipsis
Punctuation mark … to suggest the omission of one or more words in a sentence. Omission of more than one word is strictly termed ‘plural’ ellipsis.
Ellipsis of a relative that is common in English, as in ‘the song [that] she sang’. Ellipsis of identical forms of be and have avoids repetition: ‘the rabbits were fed and the horses [were] watered’.
In punctuation, ellipsis can indicate that a sentence has not been completed.
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apostrophe (grammar)
apposition
asterisk
bracket
bullet
capital letter
case, upper and lower
colon (punctuation)
comma
contraction
dash
direct speech
e-mail style
e.g.
ellipsis
etc.
exclamation mark
footnote
full stop
hyphen
i.e.
indent
inverted commas
justification
mnemonic (language)
mobile phone style
open punctuation
paragraph
parenthesis
punctuation
QED
question mark
quotation marks
reference
semicolon
sic
viz
written conventions
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