From 43853679f791af18b18bba76db701245806d8946 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 15:05:26 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] doc: copyedit util doc

Add verbs to make sentence fragments less fragmentary.

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5399
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
---
 doc/api/util.markdown | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/api/util.markdown b/doc/api/util.markdown
index d9ad0df3138cfc..1e8990a27767e0 100644
--- a/doc/api/util.markdown
+++ b/doc/api/util.markdown
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ util.inspect(obj);
 
 Internal alias for [`Array.isArray`][].
 
-Returns `true` if the given "object" is an `Array`. `false` otherwise.
+Returns `true` if the given "object" is an `Array`. Otherwise, returns `false`.
 
 ```js
 const util = require('util');
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ util.isArray({})
 
     Stability: 0 - Deprecated
 
-Returns `true` if the given "object" is a `Boolean`. `false` otherwise.
+Returns `true` if the given "object" is a `Boolean`. Otherwise, returns `false`.
 
 ```js
 const util = require('util');
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ util.isBoolean(false)
 
     Stability: 0 - Deprecated: Use [`Buffer.isBuffer()`][] instead.
 
-Returns `true` if the given "object" is a `Buffer`. `false` otherwise.
+Returns `true` if the given "object" is a `Buffer`. Otherwise, returns `false`.
 
 ```js
 const util = require('util');
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ util.isBuffer(new Buffer('hello world'))
 
     Stability: 0 - Deprecated
 
-Returns `true` if the given "object" is a `Date`. `false` otherwise.
+Returns `true` if the given "object" is a `Date`. Otherwise, returns `false`.
 
 ```js
 const util = require('util');
@@ -322,7 +322,8 @@ util.isDate({})
 
     Stability: 0 - Deprecated
 
-Returns `true` if the given "object" is an [`Error`][]. `false` otherwise.
+Returns `true` if the given "object" is an [`Error`][]. Otherwise, returns
+`false`.
 
 ```js
 const util = require('util');
@@ -355,7 +356,8 @@ util.isError(obj);
 
     Stability: 0 - Deprecated
 
-Returns `true` if the given "object" is a `Function`. `false` otherwise.
+Returns `true` if the given "object" is a `Function`. Otherwise, returns
+`false`.
 
 ```js
 const util = require('util');
@@ -375,7 +377,8 @@ util.isFunction(Bar)
 
     Stability: 0 - Deprecated
 
-Returns `true` if the given "object" is strictly `null`. `false` otherwise.
+Returns `true` if the given "object" is strictly `null`. Otherwise, returns
+`false`.
 
 ```js
 const util = require('util');
@@ -392,7 +395,8 @@ util.isNull(null)
 
     Stability: 0 - Deprecated
 
-Returns `true` if the given "object" is `null` or `undefined`. `false` otherwise.
+Returns `true` if the given "object" is `null` or `undefined`. Otherwise,
+returns `false`.
 
 ```js
 const util = require('util');
@@ -409,7 +413,7 @@ util.isNullOrUndefined(null)
 
     Stability: 0 - Deprecated
 
-Returns `true` if the given "object" is a `Number`. `false` otherwise.
+Returns `true` if the given "object" is a `Number`. Otherwise, returns `false`.
 
 ```js
 const util = require('util');
@@ -429,7 +433,7 @@ util.isNumber(NaN)
     Stability: 0 - Deprecated
 
 Returns `true` if the given "object" is strictly an `Object` __and__ not a
-`Function`. `false` otherwise.
+`Function`. Otherwise, returns `false`.
 
 ```js
 const util = require('util');
@@ -448,7 +452,8 @@ util.isObject(function(){})
 
     Stability: 0 - Deprecated
 
-Returns `true` if the given "object" is a primitive type. `false` otherwise.
+Returns `true` if the given "object" is a primitive type. Otherwise, returns
+`false`.
 
 ```js
 const util = require('util');
@@ -477,7 +482,7 @@ util.isPrimitive(new Date())
 
     Stability: 0 - Deprecated
 
-Returns `true` if the given "object" is a `RegExp`. `false` otherwise.
+Returns `true` if the given "object" is a `RegExp`. Otherwise, returns `false`.
 
 ```js
 const util = require('util');
@@ -494,7 +499,7 @@ util.isRegExp({})
 
     Stability: 0 - Deprecated
 
-Returns `true` if the given "object" is a `String`. `false` otherwise.
+Returns `true` if the given "object" is a `String`. Otherwise, returns `false`.
 
 ```js
 const util = require('util');
@@ -513,7 +518,7 @@ util.isString(5)
 
     Stability: 0 - Deprecated
 
-Returns `true` if the given "object" is a `Symbol`. `false` otherwise.
+Returns `true` if the given "object" is a `Symbol`. Otherwise, returns `false`.
 
 ```js
 const util = require('util');
@@ -530,7 +535,7 @@ util.isSymbol(Symbol('foo'))
 
     Stability: 0 - Deprecated
 
-Returns `true` if the given "object" is `undefined`. `false` otherwise.
+Returns `true` if the given "object" is `undefined`. Otherwise, returns `false`.
 
 ```js
 const util = require('util');