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The library’s booksale is here again! Select from a large collection of used books and magazines, written in Singapore’s 4 official languages! Our prices range from $1 to $5.  Payment can be made by cash NETS or Cashcard.

• English and Chinese books will cost $2 a copy
• Malay and Tamil books are $1 a copy
• English and Chinese magazines will cost $5 for a pack of 10 issues, and
• Malay and Tamil magazines will cost $5 for a pack of 20 issues

Event details:

Date: Saturday 23 July 2011 to Sunday 24 July 2011

Time: 9.30 am – 8.00 pm

Venue: Singapore Expo Hall 4A

Admission is Free

For more details, please call NLB Helpdest at 6332 3255 or email helpdesk@nlb.gov.sg

See you there!

Lynnette

Ever wonder what the correct term for the punctuation mark ‘…’ is or how you should use it? With books peppered with ‘…’, do we know what it is for?

The correct term for it is ‘Ellipsis’. According to the Dictionary of Linguistic and Phonetics, one will be able to use it when you would like to omit part of a sentence or to indicate some form of a pause or hesitation.  It is useful to use ellipses when you need to reduce a quote? However, there is a need to “avoid deletions that would distort the meaning”. Thus, careful consideration is needed not to omit and in the process distort the meaning.

It is interesting to note that according to ‘The Chicago Manual of Style’,  there is a “Three-Dot Method” and a “Four-Dot Method”. The Three-Dot Method is used mostly for general works and also many scholarly works. The “Four-Dot Method” is used to mark the omission of one or more sentences. It is also mentioned that when an ellipsis ends a sentence, four dots are also used where it consists of a set of ellipsis and a period.

References:

The Chicago Manual of Style (2003). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.