Ah Of course, the arrival of your technological age: start of common human laziness. I might mention that Simply because anything is popular will not enable it to be suitable or right (and Indeed I exploit These terms independently).

but try to remember - as is talked about below; it's far better exercise to make use of the English very long-sorts in speech:

1 Personal desire or not, that complete quit after the "g" needs to be there, regardless of whether or not it's accompanied by other punctuation, since it abbreviates the "gratia" in "exempli gratia". Even when Many of us Really don't really know what it stands for, most would recognize that it means "for example".

In like fashion, it is actually now not necessary to put intervals and spaces in addition just after identify initials. J S Bach is ok.

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Obviously, there’s even now place for confusion there, since “i.e.” also has an “e” in it—you should focus on the very first letter in the abbreviation for this trick to work.

I do Consider international phrases and abbreviations Ought to be italicized, but that seems to be on the way out -- partially since it is actually a ache within the arse to complete with most term processors. I do italicize them in official composing, but here not in day to day use.

e. and e.g. Is it precisely the same if you choose to use them or you decide never to use them? Grammar has usually been my best obstacle to discover Irrespective of how really hard I tried. This is certainly why I hope that there isn’t a rule concerning this. Your assistance with this particular is far appreciated. Thank you.

I can't believe this wasn't tackled within the Oatmeal Comic but I generally say the letters or replace it with "for instance" (and now, because of the comic, I'll replace it with "Put simply" as an alternative and use e.g. when I signify "for example").

by itself is usually ordinarily accompanied by a comma. It might enable to take into account that both of those 'that is definitely' and 'for example' function in English in the identical way as i.e.

I routinely use these abbreviations, but my knowledge is the fact that A lot of people Never really know what they mean. I typically see "i.

ending using a comma or at times a colon if It truly is followed, as normal, by a summary of examples. No Area important, while for anyone who is into attractive formatting, I agree a thinspace is good.

Jimi OkeJimi Oke 27.5k33 gold badges8080 silver badges106106 bronze badges 3 Simply because "e.g." normally introduces an apposition, it is actually best to put a comma prior to it. A comma before it is never needed.

Hopefully it goes without the need of getting explicitly said that we compose (or say the words and phrases) “as an example” Any time we’re going to introduce an example; (this can make it very clear into the reader that the next information and facts is definitely an example).