Re: [Info-mtools] [PATCH] Correct grammatical errors in documentation

[Chris Lamb]

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Hi Moritz,

> Interesting, "allows to" is not a commonly accepted way of putting
> this?

Alas not! To my (native) en_GB.UTF-8 ears it sounds quite clunky
actually. I believe you are right that this is typically German
though; I've seen it elsewhere in text from that country.

> > -Mtools supports a number of formats which allow to store more data on
> > +Mtools supports a number of formats which allows storage of more data on
> 
> "formats" continues to be plural, so "allow", not "allows".

Nod.

> > -Mtools supports a number of formats which allow to store more data on
> > +Mtools supports a number of formats which allows storage of more data on
> >  disk as usual.  Due to different operating system abilities, these
> 
> Actually, "as usual" is also totally wrong, it should say "than usual",
> which has a different meaning.

ACK.

> > -   However, the devices files also allows to supply geometry setting
> > +   However, the devices files also allows you supply geometry setting
> 
> Again, "files" is plural, so "allow".

(Actually, this is better fixed another way...)

Updated patch attached; thank you for the review.


Best wishes,

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