wined3d - fix grammatical errors

James Hawkins truiken at gmail.com
Sun Oct 1 21:11:39 CDT 2006


On 10/1/06, EA Durbin <ead1234 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >Personally, I don't think the sentences in question need to be changed
> >though.
> >
> >[1] http://winehq.org/site/sending_patches
> >
> >--
> >James Hawkins
>
> The sentence is grammatically incorrect using "is" with "by now" as the
> phrase "by now" implies past tense and is grammatically incorrect. I was
> testing an application and saw the phrase pop up, and knew it was incorrect.
> The sentence should be re-structured for present tense.
>
> http://experts.about.com/q/General-Writing-Grammar-680/question-21.htm
>

Thanks for the explanation, but I never said the grammar was correct.
I spoke my personal opinion that such a change is not worth the
effort, and that the sentence is fine and understandable as is.  No
need to get defensive about it :)

-- 
James Hawkins



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