RE: Grammar?

Subject: RE: Grammar?
From: "Robert B. Kennedy" <textexcellence -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 07:10:42 -0700 (PDT)

Doug,

I think a literal reading of the
sentence without the adjective could
construe the manual as having a TOTAL
of 5 notices. Not likely, but possible.

Best,

Bobby

--- "Douglas S. Bailey (AL)" <dbailey -at- commandalkon -dot- com> wrote:
> > >From: "Robert B. Kennedy" <textexcellence -at- yahoo -dot- com>
> > >You may not want to hear this, but I'd remove
> > >the word "type" from the sentence:
> > >
> > >There are five notices used in this manual:
> > >three different warnings, a caution, and a note.
> > >
> > >You may then define the three warnings.
>
> For that matter, the word "different" doesn't need to be in there. That
> they are different is implicit in the sentence.
>
> --Doug


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