Do you use e.g. and i.e. interchangeably?
Read on to learn why you shouldn’t.
2 min readAug 5, 2020
The abbreviation e.g. is short for exempli gratia in Latin and is used to mean for example.
How to Use e.g.
Use e.g. to list examples of one or more things, like this: I eat fruit for breakfast every morning (e.g., bananas, pears, figs).
