Is it correct to say "The list of reports a user will see may depend on the permissions group(s) they are in."?  I have asked the writer to change the text to say "users" to match "they", but he is resisting.
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Is this sentence grammatically correct?  Anyone who loves the English language should have a copy of this book in their bookcase.  or should it be:  Anyone who loves the English language should have a copy of this book in his or her bookcase.
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I was looking for some shell commands, and I took a look in "users" command.  I was hoping to get only 1 name, but I got 2:  nori@nori-hidamari:~$ users nori nori   And when I run the command "who"  nori@nori-hidamari:~$ who nori     :0           2015-04-09 09:31 (:0) nori     pts/0        2015-04-09 09:48 (:0)   Is this behaviour normal? Or it's bad?  Thank you guys for helping me.
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I had the impression that obtaining written permission before including someone in acknowledgements was required. Therefore, I just wrote to someone asking for written permission to include him in the acknowledgements of a paper, and he said he didn't think it was necessary. I don't recall where I got this notion from - perhaps the rules of a specific journal? So, I was wondering if there are any general rules about this or not, or are they perhaps journal specific?
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I have often heard people say "x of his" or "x of mine". But since his and mine point out ownership, isn't using "of" here doubles that ownership? Wouldn't it be more appropriate to say "x of him" or "x of them" etc.?  Example:     I was a good friend of your dad's. He told me all about you`
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I'm having some trouble trying to remove write permission from the owning group (g), and to add read permission to others (o) at the same time.   How would I remove some permission from the owning group and add some permission for others in the same line?
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As a programmer, I have no problem with seeing or using "and/or" in technical documentation. For example,     I can upvote an answer that satisfies me and/or mark it as accepted.   That's perfectly good English to me. However, if I were writing a novel, or even just an essay, or — heaven forbid — a poem, "and/or" would seem extremely out of place.  My question is, what should I be using instead? (I solemnly swear I will not use that knowledge to actually write a poem.)
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I changed permissions of a file (chmod g+w testfile) and running ls -l testfile gives:  -rwxrwxr-x 1 user1 user1 0 2011-01-24 20:36 testfile   I then added a user to that group ("/etc/group" has user1:x:1000:user2 line), but am failing to edit that file as user2. Why is this so?
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On my server (Synology DS212) some files and folders have nobody nobody users and groups. What are the characteristics of this user and group? Who can write of read this file?    How can I change it ? For which user and group?
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I came across this example on WordWeb while going through the meaning of the word ''.     the program brought an avalanche of mail (Just like "a group of man men").   I'm quite sure it should be mails. Kindly confirm.
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I'm writing the following sentence:     Women lead uptake at XX%.   But a friend is saying that it should be written:     Women lead uptake with XX%.   Which one is correct?
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we add the following user to the group white_house  kuku , trump , karter  usermod -a -G white_house kuku usermod -a -G white_house trump usermod -a -G white_house karter   as all know we can verify that users was added to the group by   grep white_house /etc/group   but is it possible to verify it by some command line or more elegant way ?
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I have two users, user1 and user2, that are both members of groupA. user2 has a folder in their home directory called folderA. If they wish to allow read-write-execute permissions for all members of groupA, how would they do this?  What if folderA contains many files and additional folders that also need to have read-write-execute permission?  Information regarding groups is a little 'spotty' across the web, so I am putting my question here in the hope someone posts a clear answer that might help others out too.  Thanks!
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After reading the question , I got the impression that (at least in the writers' field) the "corresponding author" flag could carry an implied meaning, such as "did more work than the other authors", or "is a more senior author". Is it the case?  I am in mathematics, a field where we typically sort the authors alphabetically, and I've never given any importance to that role (apart from "this author is willing to answer a couple of extra e-mails, if needed").
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It seems I put a   Bounty assigned by outside party, two lengthy, reference-citing answers, one "-1" (awarded the bounty), one "-2", two others scored "0" and "-2" respectively, the answers suggesting one or the other is correct, 73 comments and no consensus so far - and me, as the asker, lost without a clue what to think of the answers anymore -  this is no longer "Learners' Level" question, so I thought I'd bring it here and hear what the experts have to say.    Original question:  Plurality of verb depending on plurality of list elements  An edit was suggested to my sentence.     There was were an orange, some grapes, two apples and a small pile of cherries on the plate.   In my native language plurality of the verb always follows plurality of the first element on the list. There were an orange,... sounds awkward to me, no matter what follows up. My simple solution was reordering:     There were some grapes, an orange, two apples and a small pile of cherries on the plate.   But that's not the first time I faced this situation and I'd like to know what the rules of grammar say about that - was my editor overzealous or am I trying to copy rules of my language that don't apply in English?    Someone linked a  for negatives, where the situation is more clear-cut ("There is no..."). Same applies to connection with "or" apparently, per accepted answer there. Still, nothing for "and".  It seems there is a consensus that in that if the verb goes after the list, it will be plural.     an orange, some grapes, two apples and a small pile of cherries were on the plate.   There doesn't seem to be clear consensus for:     On the plate { was | were } an orange, some grapes, two apples and a small pile of cherries   Adding more to the confusion is the abbreviated form: "There's"     One last note. In North America, at least, there is a widespread use of using a singular form like "there is" and "there was", without regard for the subject item or items, and this "there is" is often shortened to "there's":           There's three apples on the table!      Could you please clarify this mess?
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Context: I am a non-binary user who uses singular they as my chosen pronoun. I'm also a relatively new user who just started paying attention to meta right when the situation over the sudden firing of a moderator was becoming a thing.  First, my thoughts on the Monica situation (). From what I've been able to glean about the situation I personally believe that SE mishandled the situation. I feel that they violated their own rules and values by moving way too quickly. I would like it if the issue of Monica's rehiring was put before the moderators and that they would be allowed to make a decision on how things should proceed on that front.  Now onto what I feel about the whole CoC drama. I personally think this situation has been mishandled by both the community and SE. I personally feel that SE should've delayed the release of the new change until after the Monica situation was fully dealt with. This would've allowed for people to disassociate this new change from the previous situation and would've allowed users to approach it with a perspective untainted by anger.   While I do feel SE is at fault for how this was received I also feel that some of the communities' reaction, especially the lashing out at members of the LGBTQ+ community, has been completely inappropriate. Within the past few weeks, I feel like I haven't been welcome here. I have felt attacked and demonized simply because of who I am. It honestly makes me hurt and sad that a community that I had felt was a bastion of rational thought has descended into fights over what I feel should not be a difficult question, but a trivial decision to extend a certain group of people a basic amount of human respect.  While I do feel that many protesting these changes have good intentions I still feel that many hurtful and disrespectful things have been said. whether they were intentional or not doesn't matter. I feel that both the community and SE should hold a burden of shame when it comes to this.  How we can resolve this current drama? And how we can do it without causing further harm to vulnerable groups?
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The -interest list  and  has decided to use both Stack Overflow for questions and Google groups dicussions for ANTLR users. There seems to be problems with new Stack Overflow users trying to effectively monitor the ANTLR tags. I created a  for just the ANTLR tags, but how do I allow others to follow it? Do I just give the link as I did here? (I would not be surprised if this is a duplicate, I just could not find the original.)
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another question, I used the following phrase:     Your reader is [...], but they are a busy person.   I have two difficulties here:   In the first phrase, a reader, being singular noun, certainly implies is; In the second phrase, they, being a plural pronoun (regardless that it refers a single person), still requires are, but are implies the plural for busy persons which sounds awkward (a reader &lrarr; persons);   Obviously, if I used "...but he is a busy person", everything works fine, but I'm trying to use a gender-agnostic form.  What is the proper number agreement here?