My textbook has the following sentence:
最近はおにぎりやスープなど、種類が増えています
So I know this means, "types of onigiri, soup, and other things are increasing", but I would have written it like:
最近はおにぎりやスープなどの種類が増えています or
最近はおにぎりやスープの種類が増えています (without the など)
I can't see the grammatical link between おにぎりやスープ and 種類. Does など serve this function? Hmm...