Ellipsis (plural ellipses) is a punctuation‏‎ mark or series of marks that usually show something is missing. For example, ellipsis: indicates an intentional omission of a word or words in a text at the end of a sentence, it indicates a trailing off into silence or an unfinished thought can […]

Saying or repeating exactly what someone has said is called Direct Speech (which is sometimes also called Quoted Speech). What a person says appears within quotation marks and is exactly what that person says: “Live long and prosper,” said Spock. In this example above, we are repeating exactly the words […]

We can ask a direct question: What time is it? Or, if we want to be more formal or polite, we can ask an indirect question: Do you know what time it is? We make an indirect question by using a phrase and then a statement. Note that even though […]

Sometimes we can have a sentence‏‎ with 2 objects‏‎. We call these the direct objects and indirect objects. In sentences with 2 objects, the subject gives the direct object to the indirect object: {subject} + {verb} + {indirect object} + {direct object} I + bought + my sister + a […]