An ellipsis is a series of three points with spaces between them (. . .) inserted into a quotation to indicate the omission of material from the original quotation.
The use of an ellipsis in the following sentence is, therefore, not appropriate:
“Chona Chikadora goes live on S-Files… complete with bonggang outfit and mas-bonggang news.”
Let us never use an ellipsis to replace a comma.
Ellipses and commas are different and not interchangeable. They are hardly ever used in standard written English. A comma joins two clauses together with a common theme, whereas an ellipsis is really a way of connecting two underconnected thoughts.
Let us not use the ellipsis in our website except to signify missing text.
Toward vs towards
Some critics have tried to discern a semantic distinction between toward and towards, but the difference is entirely dialectal. Toward is more common in American English; towards is the predominant form in British English.
Our websites have been using American English, let us, therefore, use toward, not towards, in our sentences as a matter of style.
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