How To Use Etc Abbreviation

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How to use etc abbreviation. Most importantly do not operate with acronyms or abbreviations having a. Don t use a comma after etc. There are lots of fruits this season apples mangoes grapes etc. 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. Thus the expression means and the rest of such things.

Et cetera english. The latin abbreviation etc. If those synonyms make sense you can use etc. At the end of a list introduced by such as or including placing a period after each letter in an acronym or an initialism. Translated literally from latin et means and while cētera means the rest.

There are a lot of fruits this season for example apples mangoes grapes etc. And et cetera is redundant. You should never use and et cetera. ɛt ˈkeːtɛra abbreviated to etc etc et cet c or c is a latin expression that is used in english to mean and other similar things or and so forth. Et al is thus sometimes sharply distinguished from etc in english although the same abbreviation can also stand for the latin et alia which is a synonym of etc because etc effectively makes a list exhaustive it is properly avoided when using other abbreviations such as e g.

That offer partial examples. Short for et cetera means and others never write and etc do not use etc. Remember et means and. Should not be used alongside the phrases such as or for example one can use an em dash instead. Using the abbreviation etc.

Notably the abbreviation for etc. Before you begin using any abbreviations from our list look through the chat history. ˌet ˈsetərə ˌɪt ˈsetərə. As you would the phrase and the rest. Is appropriate is to substitute and so on or and so forth.