From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Sep 1 0:29:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.originative.co.uk (mailgate.originative.co.uk [62.232.68.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 526A137B40D; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 00:29:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lobster.originative.co.uk (lobster [62.232.68.81]) by mailgate.originative.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5C571D162; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 08:29:13 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 08:29:13 +0100 From: Paul Richards To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, Dima Dorfman Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/30203: description of security profiles in FAQ is just plain wrong Message-ID: <334960000.999329353@lobster.originative.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200108311643.f7VGhUq85376@intruder.bmah.org> References: <200108311630.f7VGU1V07031@freefall.freebsd.org> <200108311643.f7VGhUq85376@intruder.bmah.org> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.0b3 (Linux/x86 Demo) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --On Friday, August 31, 2001 09:43:30 -0700 "Bruce A. Mah" wrote: > If memory serves me right, Dima Dorfman wrote: > >> > - is enabled or disabled. >> > + The following table describes what each of the >> > + security profiles does. The columns are the choices you >> >> "...what each of the security profiles does". The verb (does) doesn't >> agree in number with the subject (profiles). Or something like >> that--you get the idea. I'm not an English teacher, so I probably got >> the terms all wrong. I changed 'does' to 'do'. > > Actually, the subject is "each", which is singular. I'm pretty sure > Michael is right on this one. > > The prepositional phrase "of the security profiles" confuses things a > bit. A trick that my seventh-grade English teacher Mrs. Cantrell taught > me was to take out the prepositional phrase (which is optional in a > structural sense anyways) and see if the sentence still seems > correct...in this case, "each [...] does" vs. "each [...] do". Another trick is to replace the phrase with some other noun, a common one to use is "elephants". "The following table describes what each of the elephants does". Paul Richards FreeBSD Services Ltd http://www.freebsd-services.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message