RE: Display, Displays, or Appears

Subject: RE: Display, Displays, or Appears
From: "Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>
To: "Daniel Ng" <kjng -at- gprotechnologies -dot- com>, <chrismorton11 -at- gmail -dot- com>, "Tim Lewis" <ltc -dot- writer -at- comcast -dot- net>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 08:13:10 -0600

Daniel Ng wrote:

> *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r)
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> This be the way writers. Watch the ordering of the instructions.
>
> On the Main menu, click XYZ.
> ABC dialog box displays.

Except when describing certain male birds' attempts to attract mates,
"displays" is a transitive verb. It requires an object. ABC dialog box
displays what?

Richard


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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Re: Display, Displays, or Appears: From: Chris Morton
RE: Display, Displays, or Appears: From: Daniel Ng

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