[PATCH] fix grammar in comments and documentation

[Jim Meyering]

idly searched for grammar errors with this

  git grep '\<a [iouea]' |grep -vE 'a (use|one|uni|usage)'

found a few:

>From 44000e4d8890bf2bdcdfe448b035836fda36b5d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:52:19 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix grammar in comments and documentation

* automake.in:
* doc/automake.texi:
* lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm:
* tests/ext2.test:
---
 ChangeLog                   |    8 ++++++++
 automake.in                 |    2 +-
 doc/automake.texi           |    2 +-
 lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm |    2 +-
 tests/ext2.test             |    4 ++--
 5 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 8f4b36c..c25976a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2009-04-10  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>
+
+       fix grammar in comments and documentation
+       * automake.in:
+       * doc/automake.texi:
+       * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm:
+       * tests/ext2.test:
+
 2009-04-08  Ralf Wildenhues  <address@hidden>
            Eric Blake <address@hidden>

diff --git a/automake.in b/automake.in
index 10927a1..6818b59 100755
--- a/automake.in
+++ b/automake.in
@@ -1234,7 +1234,7 @@ sub handle_options
 # Return a $(variable) that contains all possible values
 # $varname can take.
 # If the VAR wasn't defined conditionally, return $(VAR).
-# Otherwise we create a am__VAR_DIST variable which contains
+# Otherwise we create an am__VAR_DIST variable which contains
 # all possible values, and return $(am__VAR_DIST).
 sub shadow_unconditionally ($$)
 {
diff --git a/doc/automake.texi b/doc/automake.texi
index 77beee3..f3f3874 100644
--- a/doc/automake.texi
+++ b/doc/automake.texi
@@ -10107,7 +10107,7 @@ of the address@hidden  You should avoid using them, as 
they could change from one
 version to the other (even in bug fix releases, if this helps to fix a
 bug).

-If it turns out you need to use such a undocumented feature, contact
+If it turns out you need to use such an undocumented feature, contact
 @email{automake@@gnu.org} and try to get it documented and exercised by
 the test-suite.

diff --git a/lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm b/lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm
index 436a904..c05c414 100644
--- a/lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm
+++ b/lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ Parse the argument of C<--warning=CATEGORY> or 
C<-WCATEGORY>.

 C<$OPTIONS> is C<"--warning"> or C<"-W">, C<$ARGUMENT> is C<CATEGORY>.

-This is meant to be used as a argument to C<Getopt>.
+This is meant to be used as an argument to C<Getopt>.

 =cut

diff --git a/tests/ext2.test b/tests/ext2.test
index 8374a2a..fa06d63 100755
--- a/tests/ext2.test
+++ b/tests/ext2.test
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-# Copyright (C) 2002  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 2002, 2009  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 #
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ $AUTOMAKE
 grep '\.o:' Makefile.in > rules
 cat rules

-# Here is a example of bogus output.  The rules are output several
+# Here is an example of bogus output.  The rules are output several
 # times.
 #|  .cc.o:
 #|  d.o: sub/d.cc
--
1.6.2.rc1.285.gc5f54