On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:58:20AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Mon,29.Jun.09, 22:53:53, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > @@ -63,6 +63,10 @@ The set of fields ends on the first empty line. > > > Free-form comments follow and be used for any other information that > > ^^^^^^ > > I'm not a native speaker, but this doesn't sound very well. > > There's an implicit "can". > > “Free-form comments can follow and [can] be used for....”
If you had said "Free-form comments can follow", then that would be correct. As a native speaker of en_US, I would say that "Free-form comments follow and may be used..." sounds best. "May" is better than "can" here because there is no doubt about your ability: you *can* write anything you want, but whether it is permitted or not is another matter. The implicit direct object of "follow" is "this line". -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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