Github user DaveBirdsall commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-trafodion/pull/1229#discussion_r139535246
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It seems ungrammatical to my ear. An imperative tense would clearly not be
correct. We aren't telling the reader to "Work with LOBs!" (note the plural
would be required, or alternatively the indefinite article, "Work with a
LOB!"). Rather we are trying to describe how one works with LOBs. To me using
the gerund seems most natural (in all cases, not just here); I would recommend
changing the style to do that. Another possibility is to use the infinitive,
e.g. "How to work with LOBs" (note again the plural). That might be more
natural for English-as-a-second-language users whose native language lacks
gerund-like inflections.
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