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Subject:RE: will or is From:"Gene Kim-Eng" <techpubs -at- genek -dot- com> To:crowles -at- fnis -dot- com, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:04 Sep 2003 21:45:42 GMT
It depends on whether you consider the generation of the
credit report a future occurrence or part of the process
being performed. Gray area, because even if grammatically
incorrect, most readers will tend to prefer "is," and
consider "will be" to be stuffy.
But if it were up to me, I'd junk the entire first sentence
and replace it with something like "Select xx to exclude
income contained in Section V of the 1003 from the 833
request file and the credit report" (assuming that the rest
of the terminology is correct).
Gene Kim-Eng
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Thu, 4 Sep 2003 16:33:38 -0400 Rowles, Carol?wrote:
What follows was taken from one of our manuals. Originally the sentence read: If selected, income contained in Section V of the 1003 will not be included in the 833 request file, and subsequently will not be returned in the credit report. This could be desirable in no income verification loans.
The QC department wants to change will not to is not in both instances.
