Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately

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"A research team at the University of Illinois . . . can heal itself when damaged, much like human skin.

no

"Additive manufacturing, or 3-D printing, . . . create a three-dimensional object based on a digital model."

no

"After falling seventy feet into an icy crevasse in the Himalayas, geographer . . . with his ice pick and survived."

no

"Among the collections at the Smithsonian Institution is . . . that singer Marian Anderson wore for her performance at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939."

no

"Archaeologists excavating . . . , but instead they discovered a row of fifteen toilets."

no

"At the Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show in London, . . . gardens and elaborate flower sculptures."

no

"In 1975, the grizzly bear was . . . estimated that there are still fewer than one thousand grizzlies in the lower forty-eight states."

no

"In 2005, twenty-three-year-old Danica Patrick became the . . . Indianapolis 500, a famous car race."

no

"Mrs. Dixon . . . was most famous for her book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings."

no

"NASA's Langley Research Center sponsored a kids' art contest . . . reveal the students' optimism and pessimism about the future."

no

"On May 25, 1977, Star Wars. . . with groundbreaking special effects."

no

"Online review websites . . . choose restaurants, movies, salons, and, increasingly, doctors."

no

"Taipei, Taiwan . . . has been hailed as one of the world's five best museums."

no

"The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a phenomenon associated with fluctuating ocean temperatures . . . across the southern United States."

no

"The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, declared that all slaves . . . were now free."

no

"The Titanic wreckage . . . is the oldest and most well-known deep-sea research vehicle."

no

"The city of Fairfax is a crucial trade center for . . . automotive and paper manufacturers."

no

"The first Godzilla movie was made in Japan in 1954. The film . . . was a huge hit there."

no

"When a tractor-trailer . . . it unleashed millions of bees; firefighters used hoses to calm the bees and disperse them."

no

"A newly discovered species of titanosaur . . . may be the largest dinosaur that ever existed."

yes

"Abraham Lincoln is the only U.S. president to hold a patent. In 1849 . . . Lincoln invented a system for lifting riverboats stuck on sandbars."

yes

"According to a Japanese myth . . . , a giant catfish called Namazu is buried beneath Japan and sometimes moves its tail, causing the ground to shift."

yes

"After a 1956 concert . . . in Santa Cruz, California, local authorities banned rock and roll at public gatherings."

yes

"After a 5.8 magnitude earthquake . . . damaged the Washington Monument, engineers examined every stone in the monument and discovered more than one hundred fifty cracks."

yes

"Clara Barton and Adolphus Solomons founded the American National Red Cross . . . in Washington, D.C., in 1881."

yes

"Dr. Frank Drake . . . devised an equation to estimate the number of technological civilizations that may exist in our galaxy."

yes

"Fufu is a staple Ghanaian food . . . served in a bowl of spicy soup."

yes

"Golfer Nancy Lopez, a twenty-one-year-old rookie, beat JoAnne Carner . . . at the Coca-Cola Classic in 1978."

yes

"Halley's Comet . . . can be seen from Earth once every seventy-five years."

yes

"In 1842, Czar Nicholas I hired George Washington Whistler . . . to build the Moscow-St. Petersburg railway."

yes

"In the Karakum Desert of central Turkmenistan, the Darvaza gas crater . . . has been burning for more than forty years."

yes

"Julius Caesar, the notable politician and military leader who expanded the Roman Empire, was born . . . to a poor noble family."

yes

"Meteor showers . . . are often named for the constellations from which they appear to originate."

yes

"Michael St. Maur Sheil . . . has photographed World War I battlefields in Europe that still reveal the trenches and indentations of exploded bombshells some one hundred years later."

yes

"On May 12, 1901, Connecticut . . . passed a law limiting motor vehicles to a speed of twelve miles per hour in cities and fifteen miles per hour on country roads."

yes

"Southern Africa's so-called fairy circles . . . were once thought to be caused by termites."

yes

"The Clarión nightsnake . . . was first discovered in 1936, but the elusive snake was not spotted again until 2014."

yes

"The Islas Ballestas . . . are inhabited by a variety of marine animals, including sea lions, seabirds, and penguins."

yes

"The National Museum of Health and Medicine houses . . . President Eisenhower's gallstones and fragments from President Lincoln's skull."

yes

"The Seismological Society of America has predicted that the Bay Area . . . is more likely to be rattled by a string of several smaller earthquakes than by one large seismic event."

yes

"The first wristwatches, called wristlets, were . . . worn almost exclusively by women until World War I, when male officers began wearing them to coordinate precisely timed attacks."

yes

"This region . . . has been plagued by drought for several years, so the coming rain is a needed respite."

yes

"When . . . Facebook first launched in 2004, it served only students at Harvard University."

yes

In the early nineteenth century, Ada Lovelace . . . conceptualized a process of repeated, or looped, instructions for a computing machine."

yes


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