Pacas, this is a very useful lesson for everybody who does some writing. All too often, we see some of these mistakes committed by some of the regular writers on this forum whom one will think should know better.
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Pacas, this is a very useful lesson for everybody who does some writing. All too often, we see some of these mistakes committed by some of the regular writers on this forum whom one will think should know better.
1. "This same principle is true for all lists beginning with these words or phrases: include, like, such as, example..."
True and true. Those words tell the reader that you are providing a list that is incomplete. You cannot, therefore, add at the end of the list "etc.", "and so on", "among others" or any such formulation. It is a tautology.
2. Your lesson on abbreviations, especially of titles, is also very useful. Here, the practice is different between US and English English as you pointed out. British English includes a period when the abbreviation stops in the midst of the word but is left off when the last letter of the abbreviation is the last letter of the full word - a contraction.
So, Okoampa and Daniel Pryce will write Mr., Dr., or St. but Kofi Ata will write Mr, Dr, or St. But both Okoampa and Kofi Ata must write Prof. to be correct. (Well, I should really say "full stop" rather than "period". I am still a Ghanaian...)
Your lesson today is useful for everybody, not just teachers or science teachers...
Pacas, this is a very useful lesson for everybody who does some writing. All too often, we see some of these mistakes committed by some of the regular writers on this forum whom one will think should know better.
1. "This ...
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Thanks a lot