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Csckid Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

correction

Which one is correct?

Please keep this parameter in comments updated.
Please keep this parameter updated in comments.
  

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I would choose the second version. << Please keep this parameter updated in comments. >> (The parameter is not in the comments.

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  • I would choose the second version.
  • << Please keep this parameter updated in comments.
  • >> (The parameter is not in the comments.
  • ") If you said "Please keep this parameter on the blackboard updated," "on the blackboard" tells us where to find the definition of the parameter, not where to find it's current value.
  • Have I left you thoroughly confused?
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I would choose the second version. << Please keep this parameter updated in comments. >>

(The parameter is not in the comments. The update is in the comments.)

That is, "in comments" modifies the verb "keep," not the noun "parameter."

(Suppose it were "Please keep this parameter updated on the bla
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