On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 3:09 PM Frank Wimberly <wimber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I hired an Amazon editor. She said, I say boastfully, "There were > virtually no spelling, grammar, or punctuation errors so let's talk about > structural issues..."[image: Proofreading mark insert period symbol] > Insert period before three trailing ellipsis points. How much did you pay your Amazon editor? ;-p MLA style places <https://www.thepunctuationguide.com/ellipses.html> the sentence-terminating period immediately after the last word of the quotation, even though a period does not occur there in the original material. The three ellipsis points are then placed after this sentence-terminating period. eg Thoreau argues that by simplifying one’s life, “the laws of the universe will appear less complex. . . .”
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