How To Use E G And Etc

Not ie or ie which makes no sense.

How to use e g and etc. As you may guess you use it to introduce one or more examples. A few additional points. Together because you wouldn t use for instance meaning as an example and then use and so on meaning others. Or etc but it is fun to know how to use them right. Arguably the easiest of the bunch etc is short for et cetera which means and the rest.

Sometimes even dictionaries don t help. At the end of an incomplete list. And they re actually still quite useful. At the end of a list introduced by e g. Is used to introduce a few examples not a complete list.

By thinking of it as example given and then follow it with a few examples. I e e g and etc. You should never use and et cetera remember et means and and et cetera is redundant. You can write etc ie and eg with or without full stops. If it is at the end of the sentence.

Et cetera this is the abbreviation of et cetera again from latin. Often i e and e g are used interchangeably but this is incorrect. Collins english dictionary for example says that e g eg. Don t use a comma after etc. And eg are all acceptable.

At the end of the list. Three latin shortened forms commonly appear in academic writing. But confusingly it lists only i e. Don t worry about listing every possibility. Aloud as et setərə never as the individual letters e t and c.