Re: Silly but important to me

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>]

John Wilcox wrote:
>> 3. Highlight the item you want to work with and then press F4. The
> Customer Service Request window (Figure 18) appears.
>
> Same paragraph. The 2nd sentence is not a disjunctive thought, it's a
> natural follow-on. The paragraph break would simply slow the user
> down.
>
> By the way, I don't understand the reasoning for using "and then"
> together. I see it every so often, but I don't understand it. I
> always say:
>
> "Highlight the item you want to work with, then press F4." Seems to me
> that's the way people talk most often.
>
> And re: the side thread, the screen appears, not magically, but
> because that is what the program causes to happen as a result of the
> action.
>

To say, "Highlight the item you want to work with, then press F4" is
equivalent to saying, "Eat dinner, after that mow the lawn".
"Then" is an adverb, not a conjunction.

Bonnie Granat
www.GranatEdit.com
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Mobile: 617-319-7461
Office: 617-354-7084



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