Something I was doing horribly wrong, was correctly writing and using ellipsis marks. The ellipsis mark in the first place was written wrong. Instead of typing evenly spaced periods, I was typing three dot's. Instead I have learned that isn't the correct way. It is done by evenly spacing three dots, with spaces between the dots and the letters as well.
It is not necessary to use at the beginning of a quotation, but rather for the middle of quotations to represent words or material that has been omitted from the quote.
Another use is to indicate a pause in quoted speech.
You too can learn more at http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/ellipsis.htm
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Gary,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the good informative post. I see this type of puncuation a lot and have always wondered when it was used correctly.
Great Job!