English Grammar Rules & Mistakes: Learn All of the Essentials: Writing, Speaking, Literature and Punctuation Rules Complete with 10 Key Skills and Over 200 Common Error Examples

Never use exclamation marks in formal writing. Don’t forget this have
been mentioned earlier; exclamation marks mostly appear in informal or
conversational writing.
Ellipsis (…)
The ellipsis is used by prolific English language writers. It is a special kind of
punctuation because of the beauty it adds to sentences and paragraphs as a
whole. If you desire to omit a word, short paragraph, phrase or line of
statement from a passage, ellipsis is the right punctuation mark for such
purpose. Another interesting fact about ellipses is that they make your readers

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inquisitive toward your paragraph. Readers become more interested in
finding out more about the omitted part of the sentence or paragraph you are
talking about.
Popularly, the ellipsis uses just three dots (three periods). Although, some
other scholarly books may use more than three dots, the most appropriate
number of dots applied in creating an ellipsis is three. Take note of the errors
to avoid when using the ellipsis in the below illustrations:
If you are omitting sentences or words in the middle of, or between
sentences, use an ellipsis.
Full statement:
“I am a man of virtue leaving no stone unturned, lest I lose my heritage.”
Ellipsis rewritten:
“I am a man of virtue leaving no stone unturned…”
When applying the appropriate ellipsis, you should leave out punctuation
marks like commas.
Let’s evaluate this rule using the excerpt from Abraham Lincoln’s address to
the Americans during the period of mass protests and upheaval of racism and
discrimination in America.
The full text says,
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this
continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal.”
Ellipsis rewritten: