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  2. Ellipsis - Wikipedia

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    If an ellipsis is meant to represent an omission, square brackets must surround the ellipsis to make it clear that there was no pause in the original quote: [ . . . ]. Currently, the MLA has removed the requirement of brackets in its style handbooks. However, some maintain that the use of brackets is still correct because it clears confusion. [21]

  3. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks - Wikipedia

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    Square lozenge ("Pillow") various Currency symbols † ‡ Dagger: Obelus: Footnotes, Latin cross – — Dash: Hyphen, Hyphen-minus, minus sign: Em dash, En dash ° Degree sign: Masculine ordinal indicator * * * Dinkus: Asterism, Fleuron, Dingbat (many) Dingbat: Dinkus, Fleuron ⌀ Diameter: Ø (Scandinavian orthography), Slashed zero; empty ...

  4. Three dots - Wikipedia

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    The vertical ellipsis (⋮) See also. Dot (disambiguation) Two dots (disambiguation) Asterism (typography) (⁂), indicates a flourished section break in a document;

  5. Ellipsis (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    That is, the ellipsis can precede or follow its antecedent, e.g.: The man who wanted to order the salmon did order the salmon. The man who wanted to order the salmon did order the salmon. Of the various ellipsis mechanisms, VP-ellipsis has probably been studied the most and is therefore relatively well-understood.

  6. Japanese punctuation - Wikipedia

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    The ellipsis was adopted into Japanese from European languages. The ellipsis is often three dots or six dots (in two groups of three dots), though variations in number of dots exist. The dots can be either on the baseline or centred between the baseline and the ascender when horizontal; the dots are centred horizontally when vertical. Other uses:

  7. Ellipsis (narrative device) - Wikipedia

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    Ellipsis is the narrative device of omitting a portion of the sequence of events, allowing the reader to fill in the narrative gaps. Aside from its literary use, the ellipsis has a counterpart in film production. It is there to suggest an action by simply showing what happens before and after what is observed.

  8. Sluicing - Wikipedia

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    The first example is ungrammatical because the island prevents us from moving anything out of the subject constituent (shown in square brackets). The second example is saved through sluicing as the island is sluiced and the meaning can be inferred from the context of the sentence, therefore maintaining the meaning and remaining grammatical.

  9. Descriptive notation - Wikipedia

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    The rank is given a number, ranging from 1 to 8, with rank 1 being closest to the player. In 19th century chess literature the first rank is usually called simply the "[piece]'s square", so "K1" ("King One") is called "King's square" (K. Sq.). Some players omitted both the "1" and the "sq", so "Rook to King 1" was written R–K.