resembles a dot, like the dot at the end of this sentence. Aperiodis used to end any sentence that isn’t a question (which uses aquestion mark) or an exclamation (which uses anexclamation point) or that trails off using anellipsis.Periodsare also used in abbreviations, such asMrs.orDr...
ellipsisn. 省略号 slashn. 斜杠 ampersandn. 和号 percent sign百分号 at signat符号 pound sign井号 asterisk星号 bullet圆点符号 双语例句 更多例句 1、 The period of literary and artistic efflorescence has come. 文艺创作的繁盛时期已经来到. 《现代汉英综合大词典》 2、 Chaucer wrote in the late me...
10.16 Ellipsis Dots 10.17 Italic and Underlined 10.01 THE PERIOD (.) The period represents a strong pause or break. A few things need to be noted in using periods: a)End of Declarative Sentence At the end of a sentence, when the sentence is a statement or instruction. For example: o Pl...
At least we won’t have to sweep the floor. But, if the parenthetical material is nested inside another sentence, the period should go on the outside: Charlie barked wildly when he caught the scent of fresh bacon (his favorite). Ellipses An ellipsis (plural: ellipses) looks like three ...
You were meant to be here at 4 o'clock a.m. not p.m.! ellipsis Standing tall and with the Lord's Prayer mumbling across our lips, we entered the chamber..." (This ends in four dots: three for the ellipsis and one to end the sentence.) (...
Period, Question Mark, Exclamation Mark: The End of the Line The Comma: A Major Player The Semicolon: Love Child of the Comma and the Period The Colon: What a Party Animal Quotation Marks: Quote/Unquote Not Separated at Birth: The Dash and the Hyphen (and Let's Add the Ellipsis for ...
Latin abbreviations such as etc., i.e., and et al. are used to highlight that there is more information that could be given within the sentence that has been left out. An ellipsis (more on that below) is used to indicate the purposeful removal of part of a direct quote. ...
Copy them into your notebook and write a short passage, making use of them after class as homework. Collocations from FIRST AID FOR BURNS three layers of skin, protect…against, the sun's harmful rays, get burned, the treatment of burns, causes of burns, hot liquids, first degree burns,...
: Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996) 80-81. I suppose this is as good a place as any to explain that the ellipsis in the title appears in German original. From the context, it is clear that the German word that Wieland...