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Answer by Kenneth for 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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Answer by Tinfoil Hat for 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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Answer by alphabet for 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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Answer by PaulTanenbaum for Is there an order to prepositional phrases?

Both are grammatically correct. Your second is the clearer. And clearer still would beThe change adds to the change log more info about the previous commits on May xx, xxxx.This version has the...

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Is there an order to prepositional phrases?

Which statement is correct?The change adds more info to the changelog about the previous commits on May xx, xxxx.Or:The change adds more info about the previous commits on May xx, xxxx to the changelog.

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