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Subject:Re: I like mine better From:Annamaria Profit <inteltek2 -at- earthlink -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 17 Jan 2002 20:04:22 -0500
As a former college-level English instructor, I come down on the side of
Process (singular) Improves (singular). It's agreement of tenses. Sorry.
But there's another violation I see too. Bullet points need to be the same
verb form/structure--improves, automates, confirms...etc. (Parallelism)
At 08:49 AM 1/17/02 -0800, John Posada wrote:
I'm going back and forth with an analyst on something. I have the
following paragraph:
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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.....
Annamaria Profit
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