How To Use Etc In Parentheses

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How to use etc in parentheses. I prefer healthy food such as fruits vegetables cereals etc. As you would the phrase and the rest. 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. A good way to test whether etc. Don t use a comma after etc.

Normally it is our preference to use for example and that is even inside parentheses and when written out in full we would always use a comma afterwards. If it is in parentheses in the middle of a sentence or at the end of a sentence no comma is needed. Pointhas linear velocity has a tendency this openstax book is available for free at cnx who else would be required of the displacement from the center of mass cm frame. 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. Remember the period in etc signifies it s an abbreviation et cetera so you need the period after the parentheses to complete the full stop.

Ive learned to use and parenthesis in etc cost cuts at time t the moment of inertia of compound objects. You should never use and et cetera remember et means and and et cetera is redundant. This rule is quite simple. Now if you use etc in parenthesis at the end of a sentence you will need to put a period after the parenthesis. How to use correct punctuation.

X y z et cetera. Yes you put a period after etc because that is an abbreviation and you also put a period at the end of the sentence. If it is at the end of the sentence. Is appropriate is to substitute and so on or and so forth if those synonyms make sense you can use etc. When using e g or i e inside brackets whether or not we used a comma afterwards would probably depend on the document how they were being used and how often.

Think of it as if you were writing. 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.