Re: `Several' misapplied?
  By: Anton Shepelev to All on Mon Mar 29 2021 01:18:14


 > The chief of a computer-science laboratory where my friend works
 > condemned his usage of the word `several' in the the following
 > sentence:
 >
 >   We present several new piecewise-polynomial kernels for image
 >   interpolation.
 >
 > on the ground that it is a typical mistake made by those who
 > learned English in a Russian school. Perhaps I was not sufficiently
 > diligent in the English classes of my Russian school, but I see no
 > fault in that sentence, except maybe for a missing introductory
 > phrase, such as "In this article, we present..." Do you?

there's nothing wrong with that sentence... "several" specifically means "three or more but not too many more" ;)

the prepending of "In this article" doesn't really add anything to the sentence...

why did the chief of a computer-science laboratory think there was a problem with it?


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