How To Use E G And Etc

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How to use e g and etc. Together because you wouldn t use for instance meaning as an example and then use and so on meaning others. At the end of an incomplete list. Or etc but it is fun to know how to use them right. And they re actually still quite useful. We always read etc.

Sometimes even dictionaries don t help. Thus to avoid being redundant we should not add etc. Collins english dictionary for example says that e g eg. At the end of the list. Aloud as et setərə never as the individual letters e t and c.

Sentence 2 correctly uses e g. And and so on lazy. Is used to introduce a few examples not a complete list. Should that happen to poor as yet unaffected places e g most of south asia and africa the suffering can be great. Itself says that our list will not be exhaustive.

There are a few latin terms that are still commonly used in english scholarly writing including the abbreviations e g and i e sometimes writers use these abbreviations interchangeably but these terms mean different things and it is important to use the correct abbreviation to ensure that the meaning of a sentence is retained. Not ie or ie which makes no sense. Don t worry about listing every possibility. But make sure you pick one style for all abbreviations and stick to it. By thinking of it as example given and then follow it with a few examples.

If it is at the end of the sentence. Three latin shortened forms commonly appear in academic writing. And eg are all acceptable. You should never use and et cetera remember et means and and et cetera is redundant. Don t use a comma after etc.