Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 18:28:36 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: grammar Message-ID: <XFMail.20030530182836.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030530221619.GA41668@wopr.caltech.edu>
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On 30-May-2003 Matthew Hunt wrote: > On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 08:06:45AM +1000, Sue Blake wrote: > >> Tell me, how would you follow the following (hypothetical) instruction? >> >> In case you run out of memory, don't run all of the programs together. >> >> Is it something to do as a precaution, or a response to take when >> an unlikely situation occurs? I would read it as a precaution and >> make a workplace rule that we must follow it. > > Do you know the national origin of this documentation? Was it generally > satisfactory otherwise? I'm wondering if it was written by a non-native > speaker. It feels that way. That sentence read very odd. Doesn't "feel" like it's correct. Maybe the contrast of "in case" which implies a chance occurrence, and the present tense of "run". I.e. it might sound better as: In case you have run out of memory, <blah>. In which case I think it is a grammar error. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/
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