From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Jun 10 16:51:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from cbl-skelly3.hs.earthlink.net (CBL-skelly3.hs.earthlink.net [209.178.114.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F18537C15F for ; Sat, 10 Jun 2000 16:51:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kelly@ad1440.net) Received: from cumin (cumin.rosetta.zon [172.16.16.106]) by cbl-skelly3.hs.earthlink.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id QAA30899; Sat, 10 Jun 2000 16:49:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kelly@ad1440.net) Message-ID: <005b01bfd336$b2e96c40$6a1010ac@rosetta.zon> From: "Sean Kelly" To: "Mark Ovens" Cc: References: <200006102340.QAA01981@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: docs/19186: Semi-overhaul docs.html Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 16:50:45 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Surely "was" is correct here? "distribution" is singular, you wouldn't > say "if it were installed" would you? Yes, I think you'd say "was." You'd say "were" even for a singular in the subjunctive case, but this isn't sunjunctive. I think. --Sean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message