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A postscript is an addition made after the main text, such as a letter, essay, or book. It typically contains additional thoughts or points that came to the author after signing or finishing the main work. A postscript can be a sentence, paragraph, or longer section and is usually less formally composed than the main text. When multiple postscripts are needed, they may be abbreviated as PPS or PPPS to indicate they were written after a previous postscript.

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Postscript

A postscript is an addition made after the main text, such as a letter, essay, or book. It typically contains additional thoughts or points that came to the author after signing or finishing the main work. A postscript can be a sentence, paragraph, or longer section and is usually less formally composed than the main text. When multiple postscripts are needed, they may be abbreviated as PPS or PPPS to indicate they were written after a previous postscript.

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Postscript

A postscript (P.S.) is an
afterthought, thought that's
occurring after the letter has
been written and signed.[1] The
term comes from the Latin post
scriptum, an expression
meaning "written after"[2][3]
(which may be interpreted in
the sense of "that which comes
after the writing").[4]
A postscript may be a
sentence, a paragraph, or
occasionally many paragraphs
added, often hastily and
incidentally, after the signature
of a letter or (sometimes) the
main body of an essay or book.
In a book or essay, a more
carefully composed addition
(e.g., for a second edition) is
called an afterword. The word
"postscript" has, poetically,
been used to refer to any sort
of addendum to some main
work, even if it is not attached
to a main work, as in Søren
Kierkegaard's book titled
Concluding Unscientific
Postscript.

Sometimes, when additional


points are made after the first
postscript, abbreviations such
as PSS (post-super-scriptum),
PPS (postquam-post-scriptum
or post-post-scriptum) and
PPPS (post-post-post-scriptum),
and so on, ad infinitum are
used, though only PPS has
somewhat common usage.

See also
Look up postscript in
Wiktionary, the free
dictionary.

Addendum
Appendix
Afterword
Nota bene
Postface
P.S. I Love You
(disambiguation), a list of
media using "P.S." in the title
Publishing
deinde scriptum
References
1. International
Correspondence Schools;
et al. (1905). English
Grammar, Punctuation and
Capitalization, Letter
Writing . Scranton:
National Textbook
Company. §21 p. 33
2. Sullivan, Robert Joseph
(1877). Joyce, Patrick
Weston (ed.). A dictionary
of the English language .
Dublin; Original from
Peshawar University:
Sullivan, Brothers; et al.
pp. 317 & 509.
3. Tanner, William Maddux
(1922). Composition and
Rhetoric . Original from the
University of California:
Ginn & Co. xxvii.
4. "PS Slang Word Meaning -
Expert answer Question" .
Expert answer Question.
2016-11-16. Retrieved
2016-11-16.

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