Re: [PATCH 1/2] t3404: fix another typo

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Hi Junio,

On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> >> Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> writes:
> >> 
> >> > The past tense of "to run" is "run", not "ran".
> >> 
> >> Actually, past tense of the verb "to run" is "ran" ;-) The reason
> >> why this patch is still correct is because this is writing in
> >> passive voice, where you want "be + past participle", and the past
> >> participle of the verb "to run" is "run".
> >
> > Embarrassing! ;-)
> >
> > Well, I shall fix up the commit message thusly:
> >
> >     t3404: fix another typo
> >
> >     The passive form of "to run" is "run", not "ran".
> 
> If your convention of referring to a verb is to show its infinitive
> form, i.e. "to run", then you would probably want to say
> 
> 	The passive from of "to run" is "to be run", not "to be
> 	ran".
> 
> But I think we do not need any of this if we just retitled it to
> 
> 	Subject: t3404: fix a grammo (commands are ran -> commands are run)
> 
> without any body.

Done. Will be part of v2.

Ciao,
Dscho
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