English Phrase of the Day

Definitions

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and so on
1. Phrase. Indicates that a list continues in a similar manner.
Put things where you will use them: sponges next to the sink, knives next to the cutting board, and so on.
Analysis
and		©
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
2. conj.          Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
3. conj.          Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
4. conj.          Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
5. conj.          (obsolete) Yet; but.
So
1. n. A Mon-Khmer-speaking people of Laos and Thailand.
2. conj. In order that.
Eat your broccoli so you can have dessert.
3. conj. With the result that; for that reason; therefore.
I was hungry so I asked if there was any more food.
on		©
1. adj. In the state of being active, functioning or operating.
2. adj. Performing according to schedule.
Are we still on for tonight?
Is the show still on?
3. adj. (chiefly UK, informal, usually negative) Acceptable, appropriate.

Example Sentences

He plays the handsome young devils, and so on.  Accident, homicide, disease, and so on.  I've had my car vandalised, and so on.  The nation has gradually decided that it does not much like the idea of bishops banning books and so on.  We should present the documentary evidence that the massacres and slave labor and so on occurred.

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