On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 05:47:56 -0600, Guy Dalziel <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 06:20:45AM -0500, stosss wrote: >> To illustrate: This package has... is correct. This package have... is >> not correct. > > That's because 'package' is singular, not plural. You wouldn't say, "the > cats has a new ball", it would be, "the cats have a new ball". In the > case of your example the correct form is, "the packages have", and in > the case of the original correction 'libraries' is plural.
Yes, 'libraries' is plural, but 'package', to which the rest of the original sentence pertains, is singular: "This package contains math libraries and have useful functions" in the context of this correction should really be read as: "This package...have useful functions", which is clearly wrong. Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
