On 10 March 2013 11:50, Chris Rees <[email protected]> wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR docs/176806; it has been noted by GNATS.
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> From: Chris Rees <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: docs/176806: recv(2) man page grammatical fixes
> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 15:42:17 +0000
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> The word "data" is plural of "datum", so yes, were is correct here.
"data" is an uncountable noun ("mass noun") such that it is always
treated as a single unit. If this confuses you think about the word
"water".
"and the timeout expired before water were received."
vs
"and the timeout expired before water was received."
"was" is correct.
--
Eitan Adler
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