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"See also" vs. "Also see" as a heading
You have the right idea—the syntax does represent the start a sentence of sorts. It starts a sentence in the imperative form, where there is an omitted but understood subject—you.
If you can see that, ...
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Why does left come before right?
With up and down, as well as left and right, could it not be related to how words are written down in English?
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Is there an order to prepositional phrases?
No, there is no fixed order for prepositional phrases. The arrangement often depends on the specific context and the writer's choice.
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Is there an order to prepositional phrases?
If it’s not a changelog about previous commits, then your second example is clearer. Perhaps you can see that better comparing these simpler examples:
The edit adds more info to the article about the ...
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Is there an order to prepositional phrases?
First: some commenters got confused by the technical language in this sentence. Commit here is a noun, referring to a record of a batch of changes to a codebase; the sentence is talking about the ...
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Is there an order to prepositional phrases?
Both are grammatically correct. Your second is the clearer. And clearer still would be
The change adds to the change log more info about the previous commits on May xx, xxxx.
This version has the ...
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Word order: Can an adjective be a subject in an English sentence?
Nominal ellipsis.
As in:
McCarthy (1991:43) supposes that ellipsis is the omission of elements
normally required by the grammar which is the speaker/writer assumes
are obvious from the context and ...
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Word order: Can an adjective be a subject in an English sentence?
In "My favorite is apple pie," the word favorite is, on what I think is the most likely interpretation, just a noun. But more generally, yes, a sentence can have an adjective as its subject. ...
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