What does it mean in a essay when?

Question

There are dots e.g.


“blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah . …including occasional actions against the immediate interest of blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah . . . concerned with the implementation of legislation which will maximize the social reproduction of appropriate labour, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah . . . marginal groups and combat the power of organized labour'

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Answer 1

When you see a quote that has "..." in the middle of it, it means a portion of the text was removed. Usually, this is to keep the quote from becoming too long, especially if the point can still be made without all the additional information that the original source may provide.

For example, the original text may have read something like, "The man, who was very tall and wore a dark suit, gave a lecture on physics." But if you want to quote it and all you want people to know is that he gave a lecture on physics (his appearance may not be relevant to the point you are trying to make, then you would quote it as, "The man... gave a lecture on physics."

Answer 2

The technical name for this "..." is an elipsis and it is used when part of a sentence is missing. This can be due to the need to cut a quote down or to remove irrelevant information.

Answer 3

Within a quote, it means that it has skipped sections of the quote to get to more relevant points. Presumably it is the same within normal text as well.

Answer 4

It's called an ellipsis, and they consist of either three or four spaced periods depending on the position of the omission.

Answer 5

It means you are not cut out for college and need to check out a vocational school (car mechanic-something like that).

College is not for everyone.