Wednesday, January 6, 2016

colon - Incomplete Lists

I have the following sentence.




There is a vast amount of fields to choose from: biology, computer engineering, and politics, just to name a few.





Is this grammatically correct? Is there a better way to write this?



Note that there is a list that isn't complete (hence the "just to name a few"). I do not want to use "etc.".






Bonus



The following sentence is similar (note the end).





There is a vast amount of fields to choose from: biology, computer engineering, and politics, just to name a few that I'm interested in.




Clearly this is an ugly sentence, so how could I write it better?

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