ellipsis
| Punctuation mark … to suggest the omission of one or more words in a sentence. Omission of more than one word is strictly termed ‘plural’ ellipsis. |
| Ellipsis of a relative that is common in English, as in ‘the song [that] she sang’. Ellipsis of identical forms of be and have avoids repetition: ‘the rabbits were fed and the horses [were] watered’. |
| In punctuation, ellipsis can indicate that a sentence has not been completed. |
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