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[PULL,10/11] doc: grammify "allows to"

Message ID 1396940651-10513-11-git-send-email-mjt@msgid.tls.msk.ru
State New
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Michael Tokarev April 8, 2014, 7:04 a.m. UTC
English language grammar does not allow usage
of the word "allows" directly followed by an
infinitive, declaring constructs like "something
allows to do somestuff" un-grammatical.  Often
it is possible to just insert "one" between "allows"
and "to" to make the construct grammatical, but
usually it is better to re-phrase the statement.

This patch tries to fix 3 examples of "allows to"
usage in qemu doc, but does not address comments
in the code with similar constructs.  It also adds
missing "the" in the same line.

Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
---
 qemu-doc.texi   |    2 +-
 qemu-options.hx |    5 +++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/qemu-doc.texi b/qemu-doc.texi
index e6e20eb..88ec9bb 100644
--- a/qemu-doc.texi
+++ b/qemu-doc.texi
@@ -823,7 +823,7 @@  In this case, the block device must be exported using qemu-nbd:
 qemu-nbd --socket=/tmp/my_socket my_disk.qcow2
 @end example
 
-The use of qemu-nbd allows to share a disk between several guests:
+The use of qemu-nbd allows sharing of a disk between several guests:
 @example
 qemu-nbd --socket=/tmp/my_socket --share=2 my_disk.qcow2
 @end example
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index 2d33815..3a7cc8f 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -444,7 +444,8 @@  This option defines the type of the media: disk or cdrom.
 @item cyls=@var{c},heads=@var{h},secs=@var{s}[,trans=@var{t}]
 These options have the same definition as they have in @option{-hdachs}.
 @item snapshot=@var{snapshot}
-@var{snapshot} is "on" or "off" and allows to enable snapshot for given drive (see @option{-snapshot}).
+@var{snapshot} is "on" or "off" and controls snapshot mode for the given drive
+(see @option{-snapshot}).
 @item cache=@var{cache}
 @var{cache} is "none", "writeback", "unsafe", "directsync" or "writethrough" and controls how the host cache is used to access block data.
 @item aio=@var{aio}
@@ -1242,7 +1243,7 @@  Disable adaptive encodings. Adaptive encodings are enabled by default.
 An adaptive encoding will try to detect frequently updated screen regions,
 and send updates in these regions using a lossy encoding (like JPEG).
 This can be really helpful to save bandwidth when playing videos. Disabling
-adaptive encodings allows to restore the original static behavior of encodings
+adaptive encodings restores the original static behavior of encodings
 like Tight.
 
 @item share=[allow-exclusive|force-shared|ignore]