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Victo Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Are these 3 correct?

In British style, I'd have to keep the third period (outside the ending single quote mark) after 'p.m.', 'etc.' and 'et al.' because I'm using single quotes, correct? I believe all 3 below to be correct. Yes? I don't want to use italics here.

Not to be picayune, but I'd even omit the periods in 'p.m.'.

I don't like to use the word 'etc.'.

I dislike how often he uses the word 'et al.'.

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Hi Victo Isn't a picayune a Spanish coin? - I only ask because I don't understand the relevance to pm. As sentences grammatically I would say they are correct but as a sentence I would suggest they may be wrong.

— Dave Phillips

  • Hi Victo Isn't a picayune a Spanish coin?
  • - I only ask because I don't understand the relevance to pm.
  • As sentences grammatically I would say they are correct but as a sentence I would suggest they may be wrong.
  • Etc - is an abbreviation rather than a word.
  • Et al is 2 words (although not British).
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Hi Victo

Isn't a picayune a Spanish coin? - I only ask because I don't understand the relevance to pm.

As sentences grammatically I would say they are correct but as a sentence I would suggest they may be wrong. Etc - is an abbreviation rather than a word. Et al is 2 words (although not British). The full stop also goes outside quote marks so the punctuation looks wrong to me
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