svn commit: r318468 - in stable/11/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1: hardware readme

[Ian Lepore]

On Thu, 2017-05-18 at 10:43 -0600, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> > 
> > On 18 May, 2017, at 10:24, Glen Barber <gjb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Author: gjb
> > Date: Thu May 18 16:24:11 2017
> > New Revision: 318468
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/318468
> > 
> > Log:
> >  Fix grammar nits.
> > 
> >  Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
> > 
> > Modified:
> >  stable/11/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.xml
> >  stable/11/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/readme/article.xml
> > 
> > Modified: stable/11/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-
> > 1/hardware/article.xml
> > ===================================================================
> > ===========
> > --- stable/11/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.xml	
> > Thu May 18 16:24:10 2017	(r318467)
> > +++ stable/11/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.xml	
> > Thu May 18 16:24:11 2017	(r318468)
> > @@ -555,7 +555,7 @@
> >       </itemizedlist>
> > 
> >       <para>The following Sun &ultrasparc; systems are not tested
> > but
> > -	believed to be also supported by &os;:</para>
> > +	believed to also be supported by &os;:</para>
> As long as we're picking grammar nits, you've split an infinitive
> there. I think you want "believed also to be supported" or "believed
> to be supported by &os; as well:".
> 
> > 
> > 
> >       <itemizedlist>
> > 	<listitem>
> > @@ -581,7 +581,7 @@
> >       </itemizedlist>
> > 
> >       <para>The following Fujitsu &primepower; systems are not
> > tested
> > -	but believed to be also supported by &os;:</para>
> > +	but believed to also be supported by &os;:</para>
> Same here.
> 
> # Adam

There is no rule of grammar forbidding split infinitives, and the style
opinion which disfavored them for many years is itself no longer in
favor.  Like the old "don't end a sentence with a preposition" this is
just a thing many of us learned in school that turned out to be
widespread prejudice, not an actual rule of grammar.

-- Ian