I've seen prior discussions of ending a sentence with "etc." and I know there should only be one period. But what if the "etc." comes inside parenthesis which then end the sentence, such as:
.....blah blah blah (blah, blah etc.).
That looks awkward to me. Because the period inside the parentheses is used for the abbreviation I don't think it suffices to end the sentence with it; so I'm thinking:
.....blah blah blah (blah, blah etc.)
is incorrect.
I know I could always simply write-out et cetera but I'm wondering if there's an actual rule for this.
Thanks in advance.
Ok, so multiple people have marked this as asked and answered. Could someone please post a link to that, because I can't find it.
@tchrist: unicorns???
Never mind. Found the link in the right margin. Thank you.
