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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Verb form in a table

Hello. I am creating a table that includes a column for functions performed by several sorts of texts. What verb form would be better to use in the column?

For example:

Function Absolute Number of Texts

To make people laugh 5 (?)

Making people laugh 5 (?)

Make people laugh 5 (?)

Makes people laugh 5 (?)

Thank you very much!
  

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Anonymous Function Absolute Number of Texts What do you mean with that "Function Absolute Number of Texts"? Is it "number" which is "absolute" or what? )"?

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AnonymousFunction Absolute Number of Texts
What do you mean with that "Function Absolute Number of Texts"?

Is it "number" which is "absolute" or what? How does it refer to the causative "make" and the number "5" preceding "(?)"?
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Hi

This isn't really a website for that advice but, in SQL, you would normally use lower case with underscores and it would be single varchar2, just to hold a Yes/No

alter table things_said
add(ts_makes_people_laugh varchar2(1));

Dave
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... and you really shouldn't create a denormalised field for a function. It will work today, but will cause problems for people later on

Dave
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AnonymousWhat verb form would be better to use in the column?
The infinitive. The function (of the text) is to make people laugh.

It seems to me, though, that you're talking about a purpose more than about a function.

CJ
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