Oct 21, 2012 · A comma may or may not follow e.g.. For example: In some sports (e.g. soccer, hockey) there is an offside rule. Female marsupials (e.g., kangaroos, opossums) have a pouch. Therefore, either the sentence made a mistake and used e.g. instead of etc., or it placed e.g. in a rare position (at the end of the sentence). After further discussion it ...

Starting a sentence with e.g. is always wrong, so the question is moot. e.g. should be preceded by a description of the thing you're giving an example of, therefore e.g. should always be preceded by a comma, e.g. this sentence.

Jul 13, 2023 · Compare hand tools, e.g. hammer and screwdriver with hand tools, i.e. those able to be held in the user's hands. Print both in lower-case roman, with two points and no spaces, and preceded by a comma. In OUP style, 'e.g.' and 'i.e.' are not followed by commas, to avoid double punctuation; commas are often use in US practice.

Oct 21, 2012 · It is certainly appropriate to use "e.g." in a sentence without deploying parentheses. In your Example 2, I would place a comma before "e.g.". Parenthesizing examples is purely the prerogative of the author, usually serving as a means of indicating the perceived importance of the examples to the thought being expressed.

Dec 20, 2016 · I.e. and e.g. are lowercase when they come in the middle of a sentence. Most American style guides recommend following e.g. and i.e. with a comma and including the periods after each letter, and this is usually borne out in edited American books and publications. Outside North America, the periods and the comma are often omitted.

Dec 30, 2014 · E.g. means "for example", so punctuate it just as you would the English phrase. In your above example, I would add a comma after "export" because the phrase beginning with e.g. is a dependent clause and a break in the meter of the sentence.

Aug 12, 2010 · e.g. is used for providing one or many examples and should be spoken "for example". While i.e. and e.g. are relatively common, other abbreviated or initialized latinisms, such as viz., are less frequent and their English translation should certainly be provided when reading from a text that includes a latinism.

Apr 21, 2015 · The value is 1, but you can set it to another value, e.g. 100. is correct. The value is 1, but you can set it, for example, to 100. The preposition was a bit off, but correct otherwise. It should be noted that e.g. is more commonly used with lists of examples. As in: life events (e.g. birth, death and marriage) Sources - Wiktionary, Oxford, M-W

Mar 11, 2014 · There is no need to capitalise the word after "e.g." because it's an acronym; it's short for exempli gratia, basically Latin for "for example". The full stop doesn't make it the end of a sentence. The full stop doesn't make it the end of a sentence.

May 25, 2018 · I can think of the following: If you cannot remove "e.g.," and the example(s) that follow and obtain a grammatically correct sentence, then it's definitely wrong. However, even if this rule of thumb is correct, it's not complete. For instance, I cannot replace the use of 'for example' at the beginning of this very sentence with 'e.g.' Near ...