The term 'ellipsis' is derived from the Greek term 'elleipsis' meaning, falling short or omission. Ellipsis refers to an intentional omission of superfluous words from writing or speech. The omission may make the sentence syntactically incorrect. However, the meaning of the sentence can be guessed from the context. The marks used for denoting an omission of words in writing is also called ellipsis. It is commonly represented by a series of dots (…).