From c036904e86310e456a3f32afcaa43779d88561bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Morgan McLain-Smith <mrgnmcsmith@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 16:43:30 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] simplified ternary operator article (#33077)

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 guide/english/c/ternary-operator/index.md | 41 +++++++++++++----------
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diff --git a/guide/english/c/ternary-operator/index.md b/guide/english/c/ternary-operator/index.md
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--- a/guide/english/c/ternary-operator/index.md
+++ b/guide/english/c/ternary-operator/index.md
@@ -4,10 +4,22 @@ title: Ternary Operator
 
 ## Ternary Operator
 
-Programmers use ternary operators in C for decision making inplace of conditional statements **if** and **else**.
-The ternary operator is an operator that takes three arguments. The first argument is a comparison argument, the second is the result upon a true comparison, and the third is the result upon a false comparison. If it helps you can think of the operator as shortened way of writing an if-else statement.
+The ternary operator in C is a shorthand for simple **if/else** statements. 
 
-Here's a simple decision-making example using **if** and **else**:
+It takes three arguments:
+1. An condition
+2. The result if the condition evaluates to true
+3. The result if the condition evaluates to false
+
+### Syntax
+
+`condition ? value_if_true : value_if_false`
+
+`value_if_true` and `value_if_false` must have the same type, and must be simple expressions not full statements.
+
+### Example
+
+Here's an example without the ternary operator:
 
 ```c
 int a = 10, b = 20, c;
@@ -22,15 +34,7 @@ else {
 printf("%d", c);
 ```
 
-This example takes more than 10 lines, but that isn't necessary. You can write the above program in just 3 lines of code using the **ternary operator**.
-
-### Syntax
-
-`condition ? value_if_true : value_if_false`
-
-The statement evalutes to statement\_1 if the condition is true, and statement\_2 otherwise.
-
-Here's the above example re-written to use the ternary operator:
+Here's the above example re-written to use the **ternary operator**:
 
 ```c
 int a = 10, b = 20, c;
@@ -40,17 +44,20 @@ c = (a < b) ? a : b;
 printf("%d", c);
 ```
 
-Output of the example should be:
+Both examples will output:
 
 ```c
 10
 ```
 
-`c` is set equal to `a`, because the condition `a<b` was true.
+`c` is set equal to `a` (10), because the condition `a < b` was true.
 
-This looks pretty simple, right? Do note that `value_if_true` and `value_if_false` must have the same type, and they cannot be full statements but simply expressions.
 
-The ternary operator can be nested similarly to nested if-else statements. Consider this nested if-else statement :
+### Nested Example
+
+The ternary operator can also be nested.
+
+Consider this nested if-else statement :
 ```c
 int a = 1, b = 2, ans;
 if (a == 1) {
@@ -73,7 +80,7 @@ ans = (a == 1 ? (b == 2 ? 3 : 5) : 0);
 printf ("%d\n", ans);
 ```
 
-The output of both of the above codes should be:
+The output of both of the above code snippets will be:
 
 ```c
 3