If you have read Japanese Wikipedia articles such as [this
one](https://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%8F%E3%83%8E%E4%B8%80), you will
have come across sentences like the following.

> この項目を加筆・訂正 **など** してくださる協力者を求めています

My translation of the sentence goes like this:

> We are looking for collaborators who would be so kind as to improve and
> correct this item.

What stumps me about the sentence is that it contains など. My research
indicates that など is attached to nouns. If I try to make a literal
translation, I will get something like this.

> We are looking for collaborators who would be so kind as to make
> improvements, corrections and so on for this item.

If I didn't add “for”, the sentence would be grammatically incorrect in
English. Maybe I'm overthinking this, but does the sentence really need など in
it?
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Why does the following sentence contain など?
など can attach to all of the following:

  * A noun 

> 本などを読む

  * Dictionary form of a (non-suru) verb

> 本を読むなどする

(This is slightly stilted; とか and たり/だり are more common in informal settings)

  * A suru-verb

> 読書など(を)する

(を is optional even in formal sentences)

All suru-verbs are basically also nouns, and など can even attach to ordinary
verbs, so I think the last item is not surprising.

By the way, the sentence can be rephrased to この項目 **の** 加筆・訂正など **を**
してくださる協力者を求めています, which is a bit closer to your "literal" English translation
([this question](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/4006/5010) is related).
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