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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]17:08, allow me to congratulate you on your correct use of ellipses....[/quote]

I thought ellipses should only contain three dots...[/quote]

In the middle of a sentence ... yes.  But if they come at the end of a sentence, you have 3 dots for the ellipses, and then 1 dot for the period, making a total of 4 dots, not 3 or 5 or 6.  The PP with the question correctly has 3 dots and a question mark.

For what it's worth, I'm guessing several of us who are arguing with the PG crusader did really well on this sort of thing on the PSATs and are NMSSFs and/or are very gifted, whatever you want that to mean.  I'm not the first ellipses poster, or the one who caught "it's." I am an NMSSF, although my parents would never tell me the results of IQ tests.  Another poster, again not me, actually identified herself as PG. This means we've lived the gifted thing ourselves, and we have kids who have also lived it.  So when argue with a PG Crusader who gets things like this wrong (and believe me, we've been kind, there were lots of other opportunities), we speak from personal experience about advocacy, and what works and what doesn't work for gifted kids. [/quote]

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