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[DG] Grammatical error in DG #2602

Open nus-pe-bot opened 1 year ago

nus-pe-bot commented 1 year ago

Note from the teaching team: This bug was reported during the Part II (Evaluating Documents) stage of the PE. You may reject this bug if it is not related to the quality of documentation.

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Steps to replicate:

  1. Under DG, go to section "3.3.2 Design Considerations"

Reason: persons -> people

[original: nus-cs2103-AY2223S2/pe-interim#2056] [original labels: severity.VeryLow type.DocumentationBug]

Nicklelodeon commented 1 year ago

Team's Response

According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, the word persons is a valid plural form of person and this is a simple issue of grammatical preference

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What you are likely referring to is a grammatical preference. It is worth noting from the screenshot above that both styles are valid, albeit one being more commonly used in modern day.

For example, "The event is open to all persons over the age of 18" is a grammatically correct sentence.

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