On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 7:16 AM, Ben de Groot <yng...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 4 August 2013 09:56, Alex Xu <alex_y...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>> Minor grammar/typographical errata:
>>
>> On 04/08/13 12:53 AM, Mike Pagano wrote:
>>> kernel, we recommend user add 'sys-kernel/vanilla-sources' to their
>> s/user add/adding/;s/their/the/ or similar; "recommend user add" is not
>> grammatically correct
>
> Make that: we recommend the user to add 'sys-kernel/vanilla-sources' to
> their package.accept_keywords file.
>
> (Note: "their" is perfectly correct usage as a gender-neutral reference to a
> singular person.)
>
> Alternatively: we recommend users to add ....

I'd drop the "to":

we recommend users add...
or
we recommend that users add...
or
we recommend adding ... to your ... file.

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/56993/recommend-you-do-something-or-recommend-you-to-do-something

Rich

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