THE ELLIPSIS

1. The ellipsis (…) indicates the omission of one or more words within a quoted passage.	The officer leered at the prisoner: ’I want those papers now. If I don’t get them…’
2. When four dots are used, the ellipsis indicates the omission of one or more sentences within the passage. The first or the last of the four dots is a full stop.	Security is mostly a superstition. ... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.