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Bookmark or Share- "Deployed to" vs "deployed on" - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeI deployed something on the test server. I would say it depends where you are deploying. Deploying "to" the test server implies a remote operation - HTTP / ssh / ftp, amongst others. Deploying "on" the test server implies that you are at the console/GUI of the server, whether it be physically (touching the keyboard and mouse) or virtually (VNC ...
- Staff "are" or staff "is" - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeA word ("members") is being left out of the sentence, and it clearly refers to more than one thing. In this case, it is acceptable to use the plural verb form: "The following staff are absent today: Bob, June, Eric, Mary...." To be absolutely clear, add the omitted word, or use a plural word instead of just "staff": -- employees.
- Difference between 'haven't ...yet' and 'didn't.... yet'Wikipedia has a decent article on past tenses that explains a lot of this. To summarise: "They didn't start yet" is the negative form of the simple past, "They started."
- word usage - Inobtrusive versus unobtrusiveUnobtrusive. Not undesirably noticeable or blatant; inconspicuous. Inobtrusive: Not noticeable; unobtrusive. (AHD) Ngram: unobtrusive vs inobtrusive. Un -: prefix of negation, Old English un-, from Proto-Germanic "un". The most prolific of English prefixes, freely and widely used in Old English, where it forms more than 1,000 compounds.
- word choice - "In the Internet" vs. "on the Internet" - English ...5. 'On the internet' would refer to data/items/websites that one can find there. as Pierre said, the 'Internet' can also be seen as a web of hardware elements like routers and switches. that switch is 'in the internet'. "In the internet" to describe a switch is kind of awkward.
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