Is it correct to end a sentence listing various things with “and similar.”?
Take the example sentence:
Our offering includes couches, stools, chairs, and similar.
Would this be a correct way of ending that sentence, or do we need to add something more like:
Our offering includes couches, stools, chairs, and similar furniture.
The latter sounds more correct to me, but I have no real reason for thinking so. Also, it is a little unfortunate having to sum opp all the examples' commonality in one word, when the purpose of having such a list in the first place is that it is hard finding a succinct common word.
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Take the example sentence:
Our offering includes couches, stools, chairs, and similar.
Would this be a correct way of ending that sentence, or do we need to add something more like:
Our offering includes couches, stools, chairs, and similar furniture.
The latter sounds more correct to me, but I have no real reason for thinking so. Also, it is a little unfortunate having to sum opp all the examples' commonality in one word, when the purpose of having such a list in the first place is that it is hard finding a succinct common word.
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Take the example sentence:
Our offering includes couches, stools, chairs, and similar.
Would this be a correct way of ending that sentence, or do we need to add something more like:
Our offering includes couches, stools, chairs, and similar furniture.
The latter sounds more correct to me, but I have no real reason for thinking so. Also, it is a little unfortunate having to sum opp all the examples' commonality in one word, when the purpose of having such a list in the first place is that it is hard finding a succinct common word.
adjectives lists
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Take the example sentence:
Our offering includes couches, stools, chairs, and similar.
Would this be a correct way of ending that sentence, or do we need to add something more like:
Our offering includes couches, stools, chairs, and similar furniture.
The latter sounds more correct to me, but I have no real reason for thinking so. Also, it is a little unfortunate having to sum opp all the examples' commonality in one word, when the purpose of having such a list in the first place is that it is hard finding a succinct common word.
adjectives lists
adjectives lists
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