Series. Another name fora list is a “series”—more than one somewhat equivalent thing or person presented together I saw Chris, Kim, and Jan Things or people in series are joined and delimited by
punctuation and
conjunctions. In the example, the punctuation is
commas and the conjunction is “and.” In more elaborate lists or series that include commas in the listed items,
semicolons set o the serial elements I saw
Chris, who was watching television Kim, who was reading a book and Jan, who was listening to a record More elaborate
series can be introduced by a colon,especially if
phrases like the following are used to lead into them The package contains the following items one carburetor, …”
Set, set, set. An
irregular verb in its main,
past tense, and past
participle forms. Do not confuse set (meaning to place or position) with
“sit” (to take a seat. Set usually has an object,
while sit is intransitive and never has an object.
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