How To Use Respectively Comma
The two values were 143 2 and 21 6 respectively.
How to use respectively comma. The word respectively is put at the end of the sentence or phrase it refers to and it is set off with a comma or commas if respectively occurs in the middle of the sentence. So there is a difference between roses are red and violets are blue and roses are red and violets are blue the latter has a slight pause before and. The words are called for when the distinction matters or when not including them could cause confusion for example. Adding respectively makes it clear that each student studied one course. One use of the comma in english is to indicate a slight pause.
The two values were 143 2 and 21 6. The use of respectively here makes it clear that the first gas mentioned goes with the first number the second gas goes with the second number and the third gas with the third number. If in the middle of a sentence respectively is placed between two commas. If respectively comes in the middle of a sentence it should be both preceded and followed by a comma. I regularly see authors misuse respectively by placing it at the end of sentences that contain only one list.
The od600 values for bacterial growth in the 20 c 25 c 30 c and 37 c groups were 0 5 0 6 0 9 and 0 7 respectively at 2 hours but all cultures reached saturation at 8 hours. The aperture and beam efficiencies were x and y respectively. If at the end of a sentence a comma is placed before respectively. The two tubes were labeled b and s respectively. In this sentence whereas introduces something the fact that only one person in a couple had to work in the past that is in contrast with something in the main clause that now couples both have to work notice that whereas functions grammatically in the same way that although or while would it s preceded by a comma because it introduces a separate dependent clause.
The dog and the cat were named jack and sam respectively and they lived down the street from me. Ulrici s later works while expressing the same views are 1 trgely occupied in proving the existence of god and the soul from the basis of scientific conceptions and in. The hegelian identity of being and thought is also abandoned and the truth of realism acknowledged an attempt being made to exhibit idealism and realism as respectively incomplete but mutually complementary systems. Both respective meaning each separately according to its own situation and its adverbial form respectively are often used unnecessarily. One can in fact say it either way.