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Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 2 Jun 2000 13:55:07 EDT
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Patrick asks:

> Which is more correct? (We're arguing about how to write some
>  documentation.)
>
>  "Once this has been set up, you can view ..."
>
>  -or-
>
>  "Once this has been setup, you can view ..."
>

Well, here's more crap from the great pontificator, but the correct answer is
"A".

"Setup" is a noun, like "television" or "airplane," and if you substituted
either of those nouns into the sentence, they would make the incorrectness
obvious.

"Set up", on the other hand, is a verb followed by a preposition and is a
phrase now so common in English that it rates its own dictionary entry as a
transitive verb.

Wirt

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