applying Ted's grammar changes

Author: nicholascar

shacl12-profiling/index.html

@@ -444,38 +444,38 @@ <h3>What is profiling?</h3>
 					Profiling is the act of creating a "profile" of something.
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-					Generically, in English, a "profile" of something is:
+					Generically, in English, a "profile" of something is as follows:
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 					The outline of a physical object or feature, or a representation of this
 					<br /><br />- Oxford English dictionary, use of the word "profile" since the 17th century
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-					Within the world of data, a derived definition of "profile" consistent with the above is:
+					Within the world of data, a derived definition of "profile" consistent with the above is —
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 					A summary or an extraction
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-					In this definition, the essence of the English word is retained since a summary or extraction of/from a data object <em>may</em> be an outline of it, for example a 2D representation of a 3D spatial object or a statistical summary of a dataset with lots of parts.
+					In this definition, the essence of the English word is retained, since a summary or extraction of or from a data object <em>may</em> be an outline of it; for example, a 2D representation of a 3D spatial object. or a statistical summary of a dataset having lots of parts.
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-					SHACL, by definition, constrains (RDF) data, and thus any data valid according to a shapes graph will be a profile of the data graph that was validated. In the case of a shapes graph validating all elements of a data graph, the valid data will be a "null" profile of the data graph, that is identical to it.
+					By definition, SHACL constrains (RDF) data; thus, any data that is valid according to a shapes graph will be a profile of the data graph that was validated. In the case of a shapes graph validating all elements of a data graph, the valid data will be a "null" profile of the data graph, that is identical to it.
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-					The W3C's <em>Profiles Vocabulary</em> [[dx-prof]] has defined "data profiling" profiling in the context of <em>specifications</em> or <em>data specifications</em>:
+					The W3C's <em>Profiles Vocabulary</em> [[dx-prof]] has defined "data profiling" in the context of <em>specifications</em> or <em>data specifications</em>:
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-					<em>A data specification that constrains, extends, combines, or provides guidance or explanation about the usage of other data specifications.</em>
+					<em>A data specification that constrains, extends, combines, or provides guidance or explanation about the use of other data specifications.</em>
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-					If a shapes graph is taken to be a "data specification", and it can sensibly be, then in addition to data valid according to a shapes graph being a profile of the data graph validated, the shapes graph itself is a profile of the data model used for a data graph.
+					If a shapes graph is taken to be a "data specification" (and it can sensibly be), then, in addition to data valid according to a shapes graph being a profile of the data graph validated, the shapes graph itself is a profile of the data model used for the data graph.
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 				<h3>Scope</h3>
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-					With the above section's concepts in mind, this document defines:
+					With the above section's concepts in mind, this document defines the following:
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 					<li>profiles of SHACL</li>