RE. Grammar Survey Selection Not in English

Subject: RE. Grammar Survey Selection Not in English
From: Yves Jeaurond <yves_jeaurond -at- CBC -dot- CA>
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 14:45:00 EDT

Chris Welch-Hutchings:

<grin> What?! No mouse?

Btw, none of the proposed choices are in English.

1) When finished, press END.--When you have finished... Though ellipsis may be
rhetorically correct, it does not entail grammatical correctness.
2) When done, press END.--When the work is done (to avoid ambiguity with "you
are" done...)
3) Press END when < YOU ARE > finished.
4) Press END when (see above) done. Also check out Fowler's "Modern English
Usage" (the "do" article).

As others have indicated, indicating purpose before action is a good rule. The
sole exception would be the last step in a numbered list, where context
supplies meaning. Even the first step can be exempt--should its function be one
of anacephaleosis (or some other form of summary). "Press END." should suffice.

Yves J
yves_jeaurond -at- cbc -dot- ca




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