Remove (s) in favor of just s

Fixes dotnet#1274

Author: jskeet

standard/classes.md

@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ It is not possible to derive from a sealed class.
 
 A *class_base* specification may include a list of interface types, in which case the class is said to implement the given interface types. For a constructed class type, including a nested type declared within a generic type declaration ([§15.3.9.7](classes.md#15397-nested-types-in-generic-classes)), each implemented interface type is obtained by substituting, for each *type_parameter* in the given interface, the corresponding *type_argument* of the constructed type.
 
-The set of interfaces for a type declared in multiple parts ([§15.2.7](classes.md#1527-partial-type-declarations)) is the union of the interfaces specified on each part. A particular interface can only be named once on each part, but multiple parts can name the same base interface(s). There shall only be one implementation of each member of any given interface.
+The set of interfaces for a type declared in multiple parts ([§15.2.7](classes.md#1527-partial-type-declarations)) is the union of the interfaces specified on each part. A particular interface can only be named once on each part, but multiple parts can name the same base interfaces. There shall only be one implementation of each member of any given interface.
 
 > *Example*: In the following:
 >
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ The set of interfaces for a type declared in multiple parts ([§15.2.7](classes.
 >
 > *end example*
 
-Typically, each part provides an implementation of the interface(s) declared on that part; however, this is not a requirement. A part can provide the implementation for an interface declared on a different part.
+Typically, each part provides an implementation of the interfaces declared on that part; however, this is not a requirement. A part can provide the implementation for an interface declared on a different part.
 
 > *Example*:
 >
@@ -4553,7 +4553,7 @@ For `extern` operators, the *operator_body* consists simply of a semicolon. For
 The following rules apply to all operator declarations:
 
 - An operator declaration shall include both a `public` and a `static` modifier.
-- The parameter(s) of an operator shall have no modifiers other than `in`.
+- The parameters of an operator shall have no modifiers other than `in`.
 - The signature of an operator ([§15.10.2](classes.md#15102-unary-operators), [§15.10.3](classes.md#15103-binary-operators), [§15.10.4](classes.md#15104-conversion-operators)) shall differ from the signatures of all other operators declared in the same class.
 - All types referenced in an operator declaration shall be at least as accessible as the operator itself ([§7.5.5](basic-concepts.md#755-accessibility-constraints)).
 - It is an error for the same modifier to appear multiple times in an operator declaration.

standard/documentation-comments.md

@@ -701,7 +701,7 @@ The documentation generator observes the following rules when it generates the I
   T             | Type (such as class, delegate, enum, interface, and struct)
   !             | Error string; the rest of the string provides information about the error. For example, the documentation generator generates error information for links that cannot be resolved.
 
-- The second part of the string is the fully qualified name of the element, starting at the root of the namespace. The name of the element, its enclosing type(s), and namespace are separated by periods. If the name of the item itself has periods, they are replaced by \# (U+0023) characters. (It is assumed that no element has this character in its name.) Type arguments in the fully qualified name, for when a member explicitly implements a member of a generic interface, are encoded by replacing the “`<`” and “`>`” surrounding them with the “`{`” and “`}`” characters.
+- The second part of the string is the fully qualified name of the element, starting at the root of the namespace. The name of the element, its enclosing types, and namespace are separated by periods. If the name of the item itself has periods, they are replaced by \# (U+0023) characters. (It is assumed that no element has this character in its name.) Type arguments in the fully qualified name, for when a member explicitly implements a member of a generic interface, are encoded by replacing the “`<`” and “`>`” surrounding them with the “`{`” and “`}`” characters.
 - For methods and properties with arguments, the argument list follows, enclosed in parentheses. For those without arguments, the parentheses are omitted. The arguments are separated by commas. The encoding of each argument is the same as a CLI signature, as follows:
   - Arguments are represented by their documentation name, which is based on their fully qualified name, modified as follows:
     - Arguments that represent generic types have an appended “`'`” character followed by the number of type parameters

standard/expressions.md

@@ -1187,7 +1187,7 @@ Even though overload resolution of a dynamically bound operation takes place at
 In these cases a limited compile-time check is performed on each member in the known set of function members, to see if it can be known for certain never to be invoked at run-time. For each function member `F` a modified parameter and argument list are constructed:
 
 - First, if `F` is a generic method and type arguments were provided, then those are substituted for the type parameters in the parameter list. However, if type arguments were not provided, no such substitution happens.
-- Then, any parameter whose type is open (i.e., contains a type parameter; see [§8.4.3](types.md#843-open-and-closed-types)) is elided, along with its corresponding parameter(s).
+- Then, any parameter whose type is open (i.e., contains a type parameter; see [§8.4.3](types.md#843-open-and-closed-types)) is elided, along with its corresponding argument.
 
 For `F` to pass the check, all of the following shall hold:
 
@@ -2229,15 +2229,15 @@ If the *primary_no_array_creation_expression* of an *element_access* is a value
 
 For an array access, the *primary_no_array_creation_expression* of the *element_access* shall be a value of an *array_type*. Furthermore, the *argument_list* of an array access is not allowed to contain named arguments. The number of expressions in the *argument_list* shall be the same as the rank of the *array_type*, and each expression shall be of type `int`, `uint`, `long`, or `ulong,` or shall be implicitly convertible to one or more of these types.
 
-The result of evaluating an array access is a variable of the element type of the array, namely the array element selected by the value(s) of the expression(s) in the *argument_list*.
+The result of evaluating an array access is a variable of the element type of the array, namely the array element selected by the values of the expressions in the *argument_list*.
 
 The run-time processing of an array access of the form `P[A]`, where `P` is a *primary_no_array_creation_expression* of an *array_type* and `A` is an *argument_list*, consists of the following steps:
 
 - `P` is evaluated. If this evaluation causes an exception, no further steps are executed.
 - The index expressions of the *argument_list* are evaluated in order, from left to right. Following evaluation of each index expression, an implicit conversion ([§10.2](conversions.md#102-implicit-conversions)) to one of the following types is performed: `int`, `uint`, `long`, `ulong`. The first type in this list for which an implicit conversion exists is chosen. For instance, if the index expression is of type `short` then an implicit conversion to `int` is performed, since implicit conversions from `short` to `int` and from `short` to `long` are possible. If evaluation of an index expression or the subsequent implicit conversion causes an exception, then no further index expressions are evaluated and no further steps are executed.
 - The value of `P` is checked to be valid. If the value of `P` is `null`, a `System.NullReferenceException` is thrown and no further steps are executed.
 - The value of each expression in the *argument_list* is checked against the actual bounds of each dimension of the array instance referenced by `P`. If one or more values are out of range, a `System.IndexOutOfRangeException` is thrown and no further steps are executed.
-- The location of the array element given by the index expression(s) is computed, and this location becomes the result of the array access.
+- The location of the array element given by the index expressions is computed, and this location becomes the result of the array access.
 
 #### 12.8.12.3 Indexer access
 

standard/statements.md

@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ ref_local_variable_declarator
 
 The initializing *variable_reference* shall have type *type* and meet the same requirements as for a *ref assignment* ([§12.21.3](expressions.md#12213-ref-assignment)).
 
-If *ref_kind* is `ref readonly`, the *identifier*(s) being declared are references to variables that are treated as read-only. Otherwise, if *ref_kind* is `ref`, the *identifier*(s) being declared are references to variables that shall be writable.
+If *ref_kind* is `ref readonly`, the *identifier*s being declared are references to variables that are treated as read-only. Otherwise, if *ref_kind* is `ref`, the *identifier*s being declared are references to variables that shall be writable.
 
 It is a compile-time error to declare a ref local variable, or a variable of a `ref struct` type, within a method declared with the *method_modifier* `async`, or within an iterator ([§15.14](classes.md#1514-iterators)).
 

standard/types.md

@@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ All types can be classified as either ***open types*** or ***closed types***. An
 
 - A type parameter defines an open type.
 - An array type is an open type if and only if its element type is an open type.
-- A constructed type is an open type if and only if one or more of its type arguments is an open type. A constructed nested type is an open type if and only if one or more of its type arguments or the type arguments of its containing type(s) is an open type.
+- A constructed type is an open type if and only if one or more of its type arguments is an open type. A constructed nested type is an open type if and only if one or more of its type arguments or the type arguments of one or more of its containing types is an open type.
 
 A closed type is a type that is not an open type.
 

standard/unsafe-code.md

@@ -947,7 +947,7 @@ A fixed-size buffer declaration may include a set of attributes ([§22](attribut
 
 A fixed-size buffer declaration is not permitted to include the `static` modifier.
 
-The buffer element type of a fixed-size buffer declaration specifies the element type of the buffer(s) introduced by the declaration. The buffer element type shall be one of the predefined types `sbyte`, `byte`, `short`, `ushort`, `int`, `uint`, `long`, `ulong`, `char`, `float`, `double`, or `bool`.
+The buffer element type of a fixed-size buffer declaration specifies the element type of the buffers introduced by the declaration. The buffer element type shall be one of the predefined types `sbyte`, `byte`, `short`, `ushort`, `int`, `uint`, `long`, `ulong`, `char`, `float`, `double`, or `bool`.
 
 The buffer element type is followed by a list of fixed-size buffer declarators, each of which introduces a new member. A fixed-size buffer declarator consists of an identifier that names the member, followed by a constant expression enclosed in `[` and `]` tokens. The constant expression denotes the number of elements in the member introduced by that fixed-size buffer declarator. The type of the constant expression shall be implicitly convertible to type `int`, and the value shall be a non-zero positive integer.