Using ellipses

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four.

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Some style guides recommend a space

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after the ellipsis, but others don't. I

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personally tend to use one. I think it

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looks smart. Here, the ellipsis

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represents a short pause, but it's often

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used to build suspense. Now, is there a

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mistake here?

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My personal favorite is watermelon with

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feta cheese. Semicolon. That sweetness

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combined with a tang is just delicious.

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Full stop. Nope, there's no mistake. The

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semicolon is used correctly and the

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combination of feta and watermelon is

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genuinely delicious. It's one of my

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favorite summer salads. Try adding mint

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as well if you really want to go crazy.

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Back to semicolons. The semicolon here

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introduces a related independent clause

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and there's no coordinating conjunction

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to worry about. Okay, things started to

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go really wrong in our final sentence.

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There were

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three mistakes in our final sentence.

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Can you find and correct them all? Next

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time someone criticizes your weird

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snack, colon, remember that adventurous

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eaters often discover the best culinary

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secrets.