THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 2014

1. THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 2014 WARM-UP: Copy the following sentence in your journal, then add parentheses and/or brackets: The reporter stated Monday night, “Many families some with more than five children were set up in the camps near the lake.”

2. ELLIPSES An ellipsis consists of 3 evenly spaced periods, or ellipsis points, in a row. There is a space before the first ellipsis point, between ellipsis points, and after the last ellipsis point. (The plural form of the word ellipsis is ellipses.) • Use an ellipsis to show where words have been omitted from a quoted passage. Including an ellipsis shows the reader that the writer has chosen to omit some information.

3. ELLIPSES Quoted Passage: “Fourscore 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.”-Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address. Quoted Passage with words omitted: “Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth . . . a new nation . . . dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

4. ELLIPSES • Use an ellipsis to mark a pause in a dialogue or speech. EXAMPLE: “But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate . . . we can not consecrate . . . we can not hallow . . . this ground.”

5. ELLIPSES • Use an ellipsis in the middle of the sentence to show an omission, pause, interruption, or incomplete statement. EXAMPLE: “But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate . . . this ground.”

6. ELLIPSES • It is not necessary to use an ellipsis to show an omission at the beginning of material you are quoting. UNNECESSARY: “. . . Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long enure.” CORRECT: “Now we are engaged in a great civil war. . . .”