Do you know what "Ellipsis" means?

[Immaculateconception]

My youngest son came home with a comprehension sheet for a book he's reading. I will add that he is also the youngest child in YR2 with a birthday date of the 31st August. I even had to go and look it up in the dictonary!

so what is it? example please?

absolutely love the 'dun, dun, durrrr' LOL

theFlyingEvil :

So Bert wondered what to do next...

ds1 says they mean 'not finished just yet....'

DS1 calls it 'dot dot dot - To Be CONTINUED' (Say in dramatic booming voice).

I'm surprised Y2s are expected to know about ellipses. But pleased...

really? just literally today i was in an english class (alevel) and was told that it means something totally different!

am now worried i am losing the plot...

we were told it is a type of sentence ie.

i am very confused

could become

confused, much?

so what is the above example called then?

ellipsis, yes.

Not to be confused with ellipses

ellipsis is an exclusion of words that do not take the meaning of the phrase away, but mean you can you less words.

For example:

"I like to interview people whilst sitting down"

"I interview people sitting down"

It can also be used in the form of "..."

ah....do you prounounce them the same then?

[totally thick emoticon]

For example in a long quote - someone will use "..." to mean I'm not finished quoting but it doesn't follow on exactly as written in the section.

could someone please tell me what it means or am I to google it?!

I thought ellipsis just meant those dots ...

Lewis has made me unsure now

here

yes, what I thought, buggery

(ellipses are flattened circles - unless someone proves me wrong)

hey i use ... all the time on MN, never knew what it was actually called

Yes, but I couldn't remember the proper name for a slash the other day. Which wouldn't be so bad, but I'm an editor and it made me look like an arse.

[it's 'solidus', by the way. Thanks, Wikipedia]

pointy when i saw the op, i thought it was some sort of shape
I am NOT smarter than a 6 year old

yes she's a mner who lives in kingston and is shit hot all things nanny/au-pair-related

well, you were very close taffy. Only an e away

botbot i never knew there was a proper word for slash - i'm glad there is because i hate the word slash...

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I think the teacher may mean this?