How To Use Etc In Sentence

We won t get into the serial comma issue here when it s in the middle of the sentence it doesn t need to be followed by a comma.

How to use etc in sentence. 0 alias expansions will be announced etc. Soon degree adverbs of time manner place etc. With names of people rule 3 use etc. Do not use etc more than once in a sentence. Don t use a comma after etc.

Though some people think it s cute to use etc more than once in a sentence to stress the fact that many additional items are needed just one etc will suffice. Arguably the easiest of the bunch etc is short for et cetera which means and the rest this is usually the last word in a sentence and shows that you are referring to other things that belong in the same classification. If those synonyms make sense you can use etc. Remember et means and. Some basic rules to use etc.

Saying something like i have to do the dishes wash the car clean my room etc etc etc before the party is never correct. A good way to test whether etc. It incorporates a very mixed bag including adverbs of time manner place etc. A new section to the site is the message board please feel free to use it for adverts etc or general chit chat. In a sentence rule 1 use period after etc rule 2 do not use etc.

If it is at the end of the sentence. As you would the phrase and the rest. Tennis soccer baseball etc are outdoor games 34. My roommate has burgers pizzas and carbonated drinks on a daily basis but i prefer healthy food fruits vegetables cereal etc. Cannot be assumed to specifically represent alveolars.

You should never use and et cetera. Hebrew and arabic use dentalized t d th etc while english makes the sounds farther back at the alveolar ridge. Is appropriate is to substitute and so on or and so forth. When it comes at the end of a list put a comma before it if you use the serial comma and don t if you don t use the serial comma. The bare letters s t n l etc.