> [...] > Have you checked usage guides, like Strunk & White, Fowler's Modern > English Usage or the New York Times style guide? > > Joe Makowiec I have failed to find ellipses in my copy of Strunk and White (3rd edition, 1979). Quotations: they don't explicitly consider the situation of a quotation that does not include a full stop but comes at the end of the sentence in which it is quoted. Though they don't explicitly consider quoted sentences either, there are, for other reasons, examples of a quotation's happening to be a sentence that ends the sentence in which it is quoted. In the examples, the full stop is before the closing quotation marks. They state that, when a quotation is followed by a comma, Typographical usage dictates that that the comma be inside the marks, though logically it often seems not to belong there. "The Clerks," "Luke Havergal," and "Richard Cory" are in Robinson's Children of the Night. By extrapolation, it may be that a full stop should be before quotation marks as well, rather than after. They point out that one can, instead of using quotation marks, distinguish quotations from text by beginning on a fresh line and indenting. (See examples above.) [email protected] (cecilia)