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how do you use ellipses correctly?

is a piece is omitted then you need to make sure that it maintains the same meaning and that it is grammatically correct.

formatting titles

longer works: underlined or italicized shorter works: quotation marks

dashes

represents a pause in the sentence, a clear break.

ellipses

shows where words in a quote have been omitted

run-on sentences

two sentences or more that run together that are joined by a comma or no punctuation at all