RE: I like mine better, but I don't know why.

[Kathryn Hall <KHALL -at- mail -dot- hartford -dot- edu>]

Just my two cents... but if you are saying a process delivers benefits, 
shouldn't it be "Improved adherence... icreased sales... an automated and 
expedited standardized..." since those are the benefits?  Maybe I am wrong 
too, but both the solution you and the analyst propose sound wrong to me.
I don't know of any rules, I'm just going by what I would write.

-K


>===== Original Message From John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> =====
>I'm going back and forth with an analyst on something. I have the
>following paragraph:
>
>-------
>This new process delivers the following benefits to the business:
>- Improve adherence to corporate discount policies, increase sales
>  efficiencies, improve margins, automate and expedite a
>  standardized Discount Approval process.
>- Automate workflow of schedule of authorization table lookup to:
>  - Confirm Level of authorization
>  - etc.....
>-------
>
>She keeps adding an S at the end of many of the words, such as
>Improves, increases, improves, expidites, Automates, Confirms, etc..
>
>I think it reads better without the S and I'd like to offer a
>gramatical rule to justify my position.



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