How To Use Etc At The End Of A List

Click to see a step by step slideshow.

How to use etc at the end of a list. Is from the latin et cetera which means and other things. 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. In american english etc. Use et cetera to mean and so forth as well as all items of the same class. As you would the phrase and the rest.

Ls etc var etc passwd. Tennis soccer baseball etc are outdoor games however if this word appears at the end of a sentence then the period which is part of etc serves as the final punctuation mark. Writers use it to say and so on or i could go on or you get the idea. How to use correct punctuation. You can also pass multiple directories and files separated by space.

If the user you are logged in with doesn t have read permissions to the directory you will get a message saying that ls can t open the directory. If the dog s imaginary i mean. This rule is quite simple. Et cetera is used as a short way to say and so forth and so on or and other things and is also used to describe a list without listing everything. Don t use a comma after etc.

If it is in parentheses in the middle of a sentence or at the end of a sentence no comma is needed. Not so much grooming feeding et cetera meg rosoff just in case i love you to pieces distraction etc j d. For example to list the contents of the etc directory you would type. Salinger franny and zooey. If it is at the end of the sentence.

It appears at the end of a list when there is no point in giving more examples. 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. If you use etc in the middle of a sentence and it is not enclosed in parentheses then you must use a comma after the abbreviation. Examples of et cetera usage less work peter offered cheerily. Another common latin abbreviation is etc et cetera pronounced ˌɛtˈsɛtərə which means and the rest or and so forth many people write etc at the end of a list introduced by e g but this is superfluous and is therefore often considered bad style since e g already implies that the list that follows is incomplete.