Thread:DoccocaubaiCAN/@comment-12690164-20150502125414/@comment-26235098-20150503141810

Wildoneshelper wrote: For your grammar edits:


 * Level 935: Adding the commas are unnecessary, and it's even grammatically incorrect to add a comma after the word "which". You never use a relative clause like that. Moreover, the clause defines what the level is so special about. We don't know which level you are mentioning, so you should not add commas.

While it's really incorrect to say "Hence, an additional n points are required to earn one star." since "n points" is in plural form and contradicts with "are" and "an", I've corrected to "Hence, an addition of n points is required to earn one star."

The "points" issue is also controversial. The subject-verb agreement can be different in different situations. If you are mentioning the "n points" as a group, for example "Our 12 points goes to...", you use the singular auxiliary verb. However, if you are mentioning the "n points" as a discrete data, for example "You will get 2 points in this area and 4 points in that area. If you go to every corner, 6 points are awarded to you.", you use the plural auxiliary verb. Here I think the case tends to go to the "n points" being treated as discrete data, so I opt for plural form.

@Wildones... I'm afraid this isn't much of a controversy for native, speakers. :( "Additional 24 points" sounds horrible! PGG's English is actually very good; he makes occasional errors, but in this example, his version was the correct, and a good choice, both syntactically and semantically: there was really no need to change it to anything else, whatsoever.  Please, don't introduce this new compromised version in order to fix something that isn't broken? :-|