While checking some rules of punctuation today, I came across an entry about "the ellipsis".
Basically, an ellipsis is this:. . .
I engage in pretty heavy use of ellipses (the plural of ellipsis is ellipses) and was quite surprised to learn that it has an official place in English grammar complete with extensive usage rules (many of which I routinely break). One rule that stood out is this: if you end a sentence with an ellipsis, you must also add a period after that for a total of 4 dots....
Wikipedia has a great page devoted to ellipses...
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