How To Use E G And Etc

This article will define the meanings of each of these latin shortened forms and explain how to use them correctly in formal contexts.

How to use e g and etc. Not ie or ie which makes no sense. Aloud as et setərə never as the individual letters e t and c. Is used to introduce a few examples not a complete list. Sentence 2 correctly uses e g. A few additional points.

You can write etc ie and eg with or without full stops. Thus to avoid being redundant we should not add etc. Itself says that our list will not be exhaustive. Arguably the easiest of the bunch etc is short for et cetera which means and the rest. And and so on lazy.

Should that happen to poor as yet unaffected places e g most of south asia and africa the suffering can be great. It tells the reader or listener that the list is longer but all items were not included. Is appropriate is to substitute and so on or and so forth if those synonyms make sense you can use etc. You should never use and et cetera remember et means and and et cetera is redundant. If it is at the end of the sentence.

And they re actually still quite useful. 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. And eg are all acceptable. Collins english dictionary for example says that e g eg. As you may guess you use it to introduce one or more examples.

At the end of the list. But confusingly it lists only i e. But make sure you pick one style for all abbreviations and stick to it. And now for some examples of e g. By thinking of it as example given and then follow it with a few examples.