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Grammar : Abb



Définition of e.g.

Origin :
  • abbreviation of Latin exemplia gratia "for the sake of example."
  • abb for example
Example sentences :
  • With this we have, in English corresponding modes of expression: e.g.
  • Extract from : « A Handbook of the English Language » by Robert Gordon Latham
  • When I have to try with some Norfolk Islander, e.g. it does weary me so!
  • Extract from : « Life of John Coleridge Patteson » by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • There are many affecting lines and passages in his poem, e.g.
  • Extract from : « Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. I (of 2) » by Dorothy Wordsworth
  • Specimens of the translation published in the following year, e.g.
  • Extract from : « Ossian in Germany » by Rudolf Tombo
  • Aubrey attached to some of these notes the title of 'Nouvelles,' e.g.
  • Extract from : « Brief Lives (Vol. 2 of 2) » by John Aubrey
  • Several other of his works bear upon the present theme, e.g.
  • Extract from : « Nineteen Centuries of Drink in England » by Richard Valpy French
  • The ending of the superlative -est, too, is commonly syllabic, e.g.
  • Extract from : « A History of English Versification » by Jakob Schipper
  • Who, e.g., would not rather have bread in his house than mice, gold than fleas?
  • Extract from : « The City of God, Volume I » by Aurelius Augustine
  • The war of the Cvennes has been treated in several English works, e.g.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 » by Various
  • Sometimes, even bodies have the attribute of producing an emotion: e.g.
  • Extract from : « Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic » by William Stebbing

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