The use of ellipses can either mislead or clarify, and the reader must rely on the good intentions of the writer who uses it. An example of this ambiguity is “She went to … school.” In this sentence, “…” might represent the word “elementary”, or the word “no.” Omission of part of a quoted sentence without indication by an ellipsis (or bracketed text) (i.e., “She went to school.” as opposed to “She went to [Broadmoor Elementary] school.”) is considered misleading. An ellipsis at the end of the sentence which ends with a period (or such a period followed by an ellipsis), appears, therefore, as four dots.