Friday, December 2, 2011


Sometimes it is confusing to choose between i.e. and e.g. I searched on it and found that these two abbreviations have different meaning. "I.e. stands for id est and means roughly "that is."E.g. stands for exempli gratia, which means “for example”"(Fogarty, 2011).

Reference:
Fogarty, M. (2011, May 19). I.e. Versus E.g. Retrieved December 3, 2011 from the World Wide Web: http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/ie-eg-oh-my.aspx

-ANGENICA F. MARTIREZ

14 comments:

  1. I learned the meaning of e.g. when we were in Third Year but I have never seen I.e. Maybe because I do not read books that much.

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  2. Thank you for sharing this. It will come in handy.

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  3. Thank you for this.
    I have always wondered how the two are different from each other.

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  4. It is very helpful. I often use e.g. when writing. But when I saw i.e. in a book, I thought they have the same meaning so I started to use both of them interchangeably. No one corrected me so I thought it was fine. Now there is no need to wait for a person to correct me. Thanks for informing us. :)

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  5. Thank you for sharing this information.

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  7. Now I know the meaning of those words. I'm curious about their meaning but I haven't tried to search for it. Thanks for sharing that information.

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  8. Thank you for posting this. Now I know the difference between the two.

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  9. Thanks for posting this. It will be easier for us now to know what a sentence implies when we encounter them with these.

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  10. Thanks for posting! I'm either curious with the distinction of these terms, from now on I will not be confused.

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  11. I've learned the meaning of e.g and i.e when I am in high school but I don't know their abbreviations. Thank you Angenica!

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  12. I thought that i.e means "illustrative example" and e.g means "example given". Hahaha. Thanks for sharing this information!

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  13. Don't forget that there should also be a comma after "i.e" or "e.g.". I always make that error.
    Anyway, good post. It will be helpful when we write papers.

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