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How many dots?

3 replies

TrillianAstra · 15/09/2011 12:05

...

I get that

What if I am writing

...?

with a question mark?

Does the question mark take the place of one of the dots, or is it three-dots-then-a-question-mark?

OP posts:
Butterbur · 15/09/2011 12:44

I have heard - and I'm not sure how accurate this is, that if you want to end with a full stop, you put three dots and then the full stop. In that case, ...? would be correct.

PeelThemWithTheirMetalKnives · 17/09/2011 17:49

I got all excited by the title, thinking I knew the answer to this one, and then you made it more complicated with the question mark thing! I would go for ...? because if the three dots indicate omission, you would still need them to indicate that even with a question mark on the end.

treefiddy · 19/10/2011 19:17

The three dots are called an ellipsis, therefore you wouldn't remove one.

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