ClearTips: Stunning sentences

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Ellipses (three dots) replace words you are not quoting—when the quotation is too lengthy or when your point is less apparent with the intervening words included.

The hottest investment in Japan may well be . . . real estate.

An ellipsis can also cause a dramatic pause in an ordinary sentence—much like the interruptive dash (which I prefer).

"Our requests elicited recurrent clichés and stereotypes: Americans are given to confession. . . . Americans are puritanical. . . . Americans are obsessed with work."

The marriage between Jane and John Clemens was "courteous, considerate and always respectful, and even deferential," their son Sam remembered; "they were always kind toward each other, but . . . there was nothing warmer."

At least six members of the jury cried as Ryan spoke of individual victims, dramatically concluding each description by saying "the defendant killed many wives. . . . The defendant killed many children. . . . The defendant killed many grandparents."

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