Could the hackneyed use of ellipses … end it all? Fitzgerald wasn’t the only early-20 th -century wordsmith to notice that an ellipsis could gin up suspense.

Copy editor Bill Walsh explains which punctuation marks can be used to create a dramatic pause -- and how to use them correctly.

I'm using it in this sentence, which I'm not quite sure how to ... But if you want to really impress your grammar-freak friends, try the four-dot ellipsis on for size.