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Thanks to everyone who replied to my previous post asking for advice on
"Add or remove a user to a
project" vs. Add or remove a user from a project."
And the winner is - in a game where everything is made up and the points
don't matter -
> "Add or remove a user from a project." ...reads fine....it always
> seems to work to let the latter verb govern the preposition.
(posted by Mark Baker, and mentioned by several others).
I said it over and over again until it sounded OK to me. It sounds fine now
:-)
However, after I wrote it that way, the client introduced new functionality,
which made the procedures more complex. So the final outcome is that I split
them into separate Add and Remove procedures.
Mike O.
"Mike O." <obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote in message news:...
> I am writing a combo procedure that describes how to add and remove a user
> from a project. Even though I am notoriously flexible about grammar, I
still
> cannot bring myself to title the procedure "Add or remove a user to a
> project" or Add or remove a user from a project." This appears to be a
bug
> in the English language :-)
>
> What would you call this combo procedure? Does anybody have an elegant way
> to resolve the preposition problem? (To vs. From)
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