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

["Fitzgerald, Bridget" <Bridget -dot- Fitzgerald -at- westgroup -dot- com>]

Johanne Cadorette wrote:
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...
if you write "the following benefits," what should follow is a list of
actual benefits, such as "improved adherence to...". If you asked, what
is the benefit? you would answer, "improved adherence to corporate
discount policies."
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Weighing in on this issue, I find the above answer to be the best answer.
The bullets, I believe, aren't an extension of  a subj/verb agreement but
are instead gerunds in the role of direct objects. Try that grammar rule on
for size...

--Bridget F.
(also a former English teacher)
 

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