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Chris Fahlman wrote:
Hi
There is a mistake on
http://survey.services.openoffice.org/user/usersurvey20_01_a_en.php
A question reads:
1) Is this the first time you are completing an OpenOffice.org
registration survey ?
[*] Yes - this is the first time I take the registration survey.
[*] ...
/// The above is incorrect grammar.
The first suggested response should properly read:
[*]Yes - this is the first time I've taken the registration survey.
or
[*]Yes - I'm taking the registration survey for the first time.
The question is also awkward.
It should properly read:
1) Is this the first time you've taken an OpenOffice.org registration
survey ?
or
1) Is this the first time you've completed an OpenOffice.org
registration survey?
or
1) Have you previously completed an OpenOffice.org registration survey?
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Thanks,
CRF
I agree that there are errors but perhaps your suggestions reflect poor
English usage as well.
The SURVEY is what the OOo admin. people are doing. The respondent is
completing a questionnaire, not a survey. (Also, you do not TAKE a
survey, you DO a survey)...
The choices should be consistent with the stem question.
e.g.
1) Is this the first time you are completing an OpenOffice.org
registration questionnaire?
Yes - this the first time I am completing an OpenOffice.org registration
questionnaire.
The tense is clumsy to our understanding but there are many respondents
for whom English is not their first language but who are answering in
English. The use of the present (continuous) tense is easier to
comprehend than the more usual implied past tense - Is this the first
questionnaire you _have completed_ etc.
WSP
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