For example: "I went to the store and there were apples, oranges, bananas...etc"
What can I use to replace that etc with? I want it to sound more formal.
", but there is no way you can make a sentence formal when it's about something as ordinary as saying you went to a store and then naming the fruits you saw there. CJ
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You can write "and so on" instead of "etc.", but there is no way you can make a sentence formal when it's about something as ordinary as saying you went to a store and then naming the fruits you saw there.
CJ
anonymous"I went to the store and there were apples, oranges, bananas...etc"
I went to the grocery store and was attracted immediately to the produce section. It had a wide array of appetizing fresh fruit, such as familiar varieties of apples, oranges, limes and bananas. But there were also exotic fruits that I had never tasted. So I bought a sampling of th