Usage and function of ellipsis

Usage of ellipsis

Common usage of 1. ellipsis

(1) means omitting references and enumerations.

For example, there is a song that goes like this: "Reinforced concrete is growing in the fields, and innocence is about to be deserted in this city ..."

(2) it means that the words are not finished or the words are intermittent.

He flew into a rage and said, "You ... don't you dare!"

(3) indicates the progress or leap of thinking.

Example: "You have read the book, … I'll give you a test."

(4) Indicates the prolongation of sound.

Click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click.

(5) it means that the words are not finished (sometimes the meaning is not finished).

After thinking about it, it seems that a seed has taken root in my heart. ...

2. Special usage of ellipsis

(1) When the ellipsis is in front of a complete sentence, punctuation should be placed at the end of the sentence before the ellipsis is used.

He just left and never came back. ……

(2) ellipsis means "etc" and "etc", and they cannot be used at the same time. When both listed items and omitted parts * * * are used as modifiers of a word, only "such as" is used for ellipsis.

How many times have novels, essays, poems and reportage won prizes since the example of "literature in the new period" appeared? From country to place?

(3) There is generally no dot after the ellipsis, but sometimes a dot can be added to distinguish the structure, which means that it is not mixed with the back.

There is a long trend in creation: short stories are close to novellas, and novellas are close to long stories. What about the long one? One, two, three ... of course, there are long and excellent ones, but most of them don't need to be that long. There is indeed "water" to squeeze.