Punctuation in a sentence split between two slides – should I use ellipsis?












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I'm making a powerpoint presentation and will also later animate it.



I'm splitting one sentence "Is X only for the rich?" into two parts – "Is X" and "only for the rich?" (they are the big captions on each slide).



Should I use an ellipsis mark at the end of the first part? Like this "Is X..." ?










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  • To make it linguistically correct, you must!

    – Nitika
    17 hours ago











  • @Nitika No, that's not true. You never seen books use ellipses when sentences are split across pages (which almost always happens). Why should a slide presentation behave differently? It can be done of course—but it's more style and personal opinion than anything to do with grammar.

    – Jason Bassford
    12 hours ago


















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I'm making a powerpoint presentation and will also later animate it.



I'm splitting one sentence "Is X only for the rich?" into two parts – "Is X" and "only for the rich?" (they are the big captions on each slide).



Should I use an ellipsis mark at the end of the first part? Like this "Is X..." ?










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  • To make it linguistically correct, you must!

    – Nitika
    17 hours ago











  • @Nitika No, that's not true. You never seen books use ellipses when sentences are split across pages (which almost always happens). Why should a slide presentation behave differently? It can be done of course—but it's more style and personal opinion than anything to do with grammar.

    – Jason Bassford
    12 hours ago
















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I'm making a powerpoint presentation and will also later animate it.



I'm splitting one sentence "Is X only for the rich?" into two parts – "Is X" and "only for the rich?" (they are the big captions on each slide).



Should I use an ellipsis mark at the end of the first part? Like this "Is X..." ?










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I'm making a powerpoint presentation and will also later animate it.



I'm splitting one sentence "Is X only for the rich?" into two parts – "Is X" and "only for the rich?" (they are the big captions on each slide).



Should I use an ellipsis mark at the end of the first part? Like this "Is X..." ?







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  • To make it linguistically correct, you must!

    – Nitika
    17 hours ago











  • @Nitika No, that's not true. You never seen books use ellipses when sentences are split across pages (which almost always happens). Why should a slide presentation behave differently? It can be done of course—but it's more style and personal opinion than anything to do with grammar.

    – Jason Bassford
    12 hours ago





















  • To make it linguistically correct, you must!

    – Nitika
    17 hours ago











  • @Nitika No, that's not true. You never seen books use ellipses when sentences are split across pages (which almost always happens). Why should a slide presentation behave differently? It can be done of course—but it's more style and personal opinion than anything to do with grammar.

    – Jason Bassford
    12 hours ago



















To make it linguistically correct, you must!

– Nitika
17 hours ago





To make it linguistically correct, you must!

– Nitika
17 hours ago













@Nitika No, that's not true. You never seen books use ellipses when sentences are split across pages (which almost always happens). Why should a slide presentation behave differently? It can be done of course—but it's more style and personal opinion than anything to do with grammar.

– Jason Bassford
12 hours ago







@Nitika No, that's not true. You never seen books use ellipses when sentences are split across pages (which almost always happens). Why should a slide presentation behave differently? It can be done of course—but it's more style and personal opinion than anything to do with grammar.

– Jason Bassford
12 hours ago












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