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jour brought to you by the gettysburg address we plugged

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that address into our gps system but somehow we're still

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lost Alright which sentence uses an ellipsis to indicate omission

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And here the potential answers are three dots meaning something

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was in there and ellipsis is frequently used to stand

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in for content that has been omitted or left out

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like us anytime we try to get into a pickup

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game of basketball So what we're looking for is the

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answer choice where the ellipsis is pretty much just some

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words disguises periods What the writer is doing here is

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telling us the essence of what lincoln said in his

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gettysburg address without having to read it to us all

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word for word Well since the ellipsis is supposed to

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replace some of lincoln's words we can immediately rule out

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both be and d which don't even have the ellipses

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within the quote answer choice a puts the ellipsis inside

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the quotes where it belongs but since it comes at

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the very beginning of the quoted passage it could be

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just a gn indication that we're starting a quote in

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the middle of a thought not necessarily that anything has

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been omitted We'll see on the other hand hits it

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on the nose by putting any lips is before a

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new nation The writer demonstrates that there was probably some

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other stuff that came right before this but it is

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an essential to his point so he's leaving it out

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at the moment the three dots replacement Yet we sure

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