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The Web Security Testing Guide is a comprehensive Open Source guide to testing the security of web applications and web services.
https://owasp.org/www-project-web-security-testing-guide/
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Update README.md - Grammar #1120

Closed skovsgaard closed 10 months ago

skovsgaard commented 10 months ago

Minor grammatical correction

skovsgaard commented 10 months ago

Pretty sure infinite implies plural.

Pretty sure a sum defined as infinite is still a singular sum, grammatically speaking.

rbsec commented 10 months ago

This is one of those grammar questions that doesn't really have universally agreed answer (probably because English grammar is a complete mess).

The discussion on the English Language Stack Exchange here and here suggests that "are" is more correct, although there are about 5x as many results on Google for "There is an infinite number of" compared to "There are an infinite number of".

To me, "are" sounds more correct in that sentence, because the thing that we're talking about (ways that the an application can fail) is plural.

But TBH, I don't really care much either way - in both cases it's perfectly clear what the meaning is.