re: Display vs Appears

Subject: re: Display vs Appears
From: "Lorraine Butchart" <lbutchart -at- mybc -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 17:24:50 -0800

>Example: Select ABC. The GHI window displays, on
>which you can..."

>as opposed to "Select ABC. The GHI window appears, on
>which you can..."

According to my dictionary (Oxford), display is a transitive verb (it
must take an object). Therefore, it is not grammatically correct to say
that something displays. The program can display something, though.

Nevertheless, I would go with the second choice

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Lorraine Butchart
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