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Anonymous Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Different way to say "etc"?

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.

  

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", 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

  • ", 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

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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

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"and so forth" is another option. It is mostly used in formal writing.

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