Ellipses

Those are ellipses. They usually are placed at the end or beginning of a sentence to denote that the sentence or thought is incomplete. I think sometimes ellipses would also imply a rhetorical thought if there is no presence or anticipation of the rest of the thought or sentence, but I think that’s not as often used in that fashion as a question mark. The ellipses in the middle of a sentence can also substitute a certain # of words in order to make the sentence shorter. Either the words replaced are either insubstantial words to the sentence’s context, like in a quote, or perhaps a profanity or vulgarity.

Quotation Marks

It’s an ellipsis, plural ellipses, from the Greek for omission. Its chronic overuse is known as ellipsisitus.

They are called periods of ellipsis, and here is everything you always wanted to know about them (but were afraid to ask):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis

Cheers,

Bruce

“just help ducky” has it right it is spelled “ellipsis” (pronounced el-lip-sis). The plural form of “ellipsis” is “ellipses” (pronounced el-lip-seas).

It is the ellipsis. Catch the spelling. . .

are you talking about the … or ” “?

… at the end of sentences usually means … and so forth, so on, or etcetera or etc.

it is called double quotation….

double quotation marks denote either speech or a quotation..

it is preferred in U.S….

it is an ellipses. dont u know