Review of About Kubuntu page
Nitesh Mistry
mistrynitesh at gmail.com
Sat Nov 28 06:45:38 UTC 2009
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Thomas R. Jones <
thomas.jones at maitreyasecurity.com> wrote:
> On Nov 27, 2009, at 11:32 AM, Nitesh Mistry <mistrynitesh at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> page source :
> ~ubuntu-core-doc/kubuntu-docs/lucid : /docs/about/C/about.xml (revision 1
> 27)
>
> suggestions:
>
> line 59: "The team behind the Ubuntu and &kubuntu; projects..." --> "The
> team behind the &kubuntu; project makes the following commitment to its
> users:" - no need to mention Ubuntu as all the items mentioned below is
> specific to Kubuntu. eg. the first item itself reads as "&kubuntu; will
> always utilize the solid base of the Ubuntu project...".
>
>
> "The team behind...makes the following" should be grammatically corrected
> to "make". Team is a single entity. A collection of individuals yes. But as
> such the verb should also be singular.
>
the word 'makes' is a singular verb,
example: 'he talks about food'
'they talk about food'
reference: http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/subjectVerbAgree.asp
I do accept all other suggestions. Thanks for enlightening me on the usage
of word 'Internet'.
Also thank you both for the encouraging words.
Regards,
--
Nitesh
http://techformyself.blogspot.com
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