Re: Review of section 8

2009/4/14 Raphaël Troncy <Raphael.Troncy@cwi.nl>:
> Hi Silvia,
>
>>>> * (minor text change:) first paragraph: replace "There exists already"
>>>> with "There exist already"
>>>
>>> I have overwritten this, as my grammar dictionary told me: "There existS
>>> already ..." + singular
>>
>> "a number of URI schemes" is not singular...
>> Let's also remove the "already", which makes it sound silly.
>
> Arggg, needs a English native here, since I think "a number of" is
> considered as singular.

Suggest: "There are a number of URI schemes which define semantics for
their fragment identifiers."

or just:

"Some existing URI schemes define semantics for fragment identifiers."

Conrad.