Can I use an ellipsis at the beginning of a quote? [closed]

Solution 1:

An ellipsis at the beginning of a sentence is incorrect.

When making a quote of some passage, ellipses are used for those parts of a sentence that are left out. There is nothing at the beginning of a sentence that is left out, so no ellipsis is used. Likewise if the quote goes to the end of the sentence, no ellipsis is used there either.

If the source sentence is "This happened and that happened and some other third thing happened." and you want to quote just the first two parts, it is:

"This happened and that happened..."

If it is the second and third parts, it is:

"...that happened and some other third thing happened."

But if just the second part, ellipsis must be used:

"...that happened..."