- From: Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl>
- Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:09:48 +0200
- To: Raphaël Troncy <Raphael.Troncy@cwi.nl>
- Cc: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>, Media Fragment <public-media-fragment@w3.org>, Davy Van Deursen <davy.vandeursen@ugent.be>, Erik Mannens <erik.mannens@ugent.be>
On 14 apr 2009, at 16:42, Raphaël Troncy wrote: > 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. Discussed this with a number of natives here, and the votes were 50/50. Possibly it's british vs. american english. Suggestion: get rid of "a number" if favor of "some" or something else. -- Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma Goldman
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