iUniverse: How To Correctly Use Ellipses and Exclamation Points

Being a reader as well as an author you may have noticed the excessive use of ellipses and exclamation points. In this article, iUniverse Publishing presents several ideas on how to avoid overusing these punctuation marks.

Ellipses:

The ellipsis is used to show readers that you have omitted words from a sentence or that you have omitted sentences from a quoted paragraph. When you have an ellipsis in the middle of a sentence, it is called a medial ellipsis. Authors also use ellipses to indicate that the person speaking has trailed off and left a sentence or a thought unfinished

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