On 3/14/01 9:58 AM, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 3/14/01 6:01 AM, "Christian M. M. Brady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Tim,
>>
>> So if you have an ellipsis at the end of the sentence should it have a
>> period as well? "She kept going on, and on, and on ...."
>>
> It seems to me than an ellipsis at the "end" implies that the end has been
> abrogated - that we don't know what the end might have been, that there is
> no end. I've never seen a period afterwards �
No, when you have an ellipsis followed by a period it indicates that you
have truncated the *rest* of the sentence in that quote. "In the
beginning...." This is in apposition to an ellipsis used within a quote: "In
the beginning...and the earth was formless and void." (And yes, technically
"void" is not the end of that sentence, but let's just pretend, ok? ;-)
Cb
cbrady @ tulane.edu
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