RE: Question: "Running the XYZZY"

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

> Just a quick question. I'm documenting a new application and 
> my boss wants me to replace "running the XYZZY" and "running 
> XYZZY", where XYZZY is the name of the application. She wants 
> to know what the big guns of the industry did. I must agree 
> to everything she says, so I said I'd check it out. (Long 
> story on the previous sentence). Anyhow, I'm pretty sure that 
> "using" or "working with" would drop in there just fine. What 
> do y'all think? Feed me, O experts.
> 

She's right: drop the "the."

You're right:  Using, running, working with are all fine.

We wouldn't say "using the Microsoft Word," so we wouldn't say "using the
XYZZY" either. We'd say "using XYZZY." Using, running, working with are all
fine.

Bonnie Granat | www.GranatEdit.com
bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com
Cambridge, Massachusetts, US



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