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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:18:35 +0100
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Subject: Re: English Grammar question
From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Susanne Ebrecht <susanne@2ndquadrant.com>
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On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Susanne Ebrecht
<susanne@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> during translation the history.sgml - I found the following sentences in
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/history.html
>
> "The design of the rule system at that time was described in The design o=
f
> the POSTGRES rules system. The rationale and architecture of the storage
> manager were detailed in The design of the POSTGRES storage system "
>
> I am not sure if the grammar is correct here.
>
> My feeling says it should be:
>
> "is decribed" and "are detailed"=A0 instead of "was and were"
>
> I am pretty sure these books still exist.

I think both are correct, but you are right that those books still
exist and so it looks archaic and can be reworded.

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