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Narrator: It can be used in a number of ways. To show a word, or words, have been removed from a quote. Brain likes cake, which he never shares, he has one in the cupboard. If the middle section isn’t ...

Writing coach and CUNY Journalism Press editor Timothy Harper tells us how to properly use ellipses, em dashes, and parentheses. FULL TRANSCRIPT: The default, typically, when we’re using punctuation ...

I have been thinking about the changing nature of the ellipsis as a grammatical device. A few days ago, I was going over a draft of a graphic novel I am about to send to the publisher. It is called ...

The punctuation mark of the ellipsis is perhaps the most unusual mark in the English language, for punctuation marks are designed to convey meaning by indicating relationships between ideas, but the ...