Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 09:43:30 -0700 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/30203: description of security profiles in FAQ is just plain wrong Message-ID: <200108311643.f7VGhUq85376@intruder.bmah.org> In-Reply-To: <200108311630.f7VGU1V07031@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200108311630.f7VGU1V07031@freefall.freebsd.org>
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--==_Exmh_200030180P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Dima Dorfman wrote: > > - is enabled or disabled.</para> > > + <para>The following table describes what each of the > > + security profiles does. The columns are the choices you > > "...what each of the security profiles does". The verb (does) doesn't > agree in number with the subject (profiles). Or something like > that--you get the idea. I'm not an English teacher, so I probably got > the terms all wrong. I changed 'does' to 'do'. Actually, the subject is "each", which is singular. I'm pretty sure Michael is right on this one. The prepositional phrase "of the security profiles" confuses things a bit. A trick that my seventh-grade English teacher Mrs. Cantrell taught me was to take out the prepositional phrase (which is optional in a structural sense anyways) and see if the sentence still seems correct...in this case, "each [...] does" vs. "each [...] do". Bruce. --==_Exmh_200030180P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.3.1+ 05/14/2001 iD8DBQE7j76x2MoxcVugUsMRAtnHAJ9bvc5myw7ygN7qpGTT/02PVrxvtACg9vf3 hUMUNNaN5RmbQjedD8dV11Q= =hhxm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_200030180P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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