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From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it>
Subject: Re: docs/30749: Typo in the handbook's section 14.3
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The following reply was made to PR docs/30749; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it>
To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>,
	Shill <shill@free.fr>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: docs/30749: Typo in the handbook's section 14.3
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 13:09:58 +0200 (CEST)

 > Shill said on Sep 22, 2001 at 16:08:33:
 > > 
 > > In the handbook's section 14.3:
 > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x13973.html
 > > 
 > > "After adding the driver(s) you need to your kernel configuration file"
 > > -> delete "you need" (?)
  
 > What's wrong with it as it stands?  (I'm not sure whether, strictly
 > speaking, a "which" is required before "you need" but it's common
 > usage as it is.)
 
 
 
 
 AFAIK, you are correct.
 
 "the driver(s) you need" contains an identifying (also: defining, restrictive) 
 relative clause; that is, you speak of **certain** drivers (the driver(s) you 
 need).  **Object** relative pronouns are often omitted in an informal style.
 
 <possible reason for Shill's difficulty>
 The whole sentence, "[adding [the driver you need] [to you kernel 
 configuration file]]", **might** sound ambiguous, ie might also be interpreted 
  as "[adding the driver [you need to your kernel configuration file]]"; 
 however, considering the syntactic features of the constituents, viz the 
 constructions the verb "(to) need" can be used in, I can see no syntactic or 
 semantic ambiguity.  I would say the sentence sounds good. :-)
 
 Just my 0.02 Euro
 
 -- Salvo

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