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Andrea Del Bene Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Amount of time between...

Hi everybody!

In a sentence I have to say that a certain amount of time must elapse between two events. Is this correct ?:

"the amount of time (in milliseconds) that must elapse between a change of user input and sending a news Ajax request to display suggestions."

Thank you.
  

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1. That is not a complete sentence. Are you writing a definition for a parameter?

— KrisBlueNZ

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  • That is not a complete sentence.
  • Are you writing a definition for a parameter?
  • For example, CHANGE_DELAY: -- The amount of time (in milliseconds) ...
  • If so, that's OK.
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1. That is not a complete sentence. Are you writing a definition for a parameter? For example,

CHANGE_DELAY:
-- The amount of time (in milliseconds) ...

If so, that's OK. If not, you need to make your sentence complete.

2. "... sending a news Ajax request ..."
Do you mean a new Ajax request? I will assume you do mean new.

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First of all, thank you for your answer Emotion: smile
  1. Yes, I'm writing a definition for a parameter
  2. Ooops, it's obviously a t
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OK, if it's a delay you are enforcing, you should say "the amount of time (in milliseconds) that will elapse ...". Actually, even that is not very clear. I would rather say something like "The delay (in milliseconds) that the function will insert between a change ... and transmission of ..." to make it very explicit. I used the function because I'm not sure of the appro
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