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Originally Posted by loreen
And don't use "babies, flowers, clowns, etc" because " et" means " and" so it should be without the comma: "babies, flowers, clowns etc" 
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that's not correct.
Note: Never use and with etc. (Etc. is the abbreviation of et cetera, which means ?and so forth.?)
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