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[v14.x backport] doc: use present tense in error messages #35247

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Error messages are a mix of present and past tense. They should be
mostly or entirely present tense. This eliminates the past tense
constructions "was found" and "were found".

PR-URL: #35164
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen [email protected]
Reviewed-By: Denys Otrishko [email protected]
Reviewed-By: Derek Lewis [email protected]
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca [email protected]

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Error messages are a mix of present and past tense. They should be
mostly or entirely present tense. This eliminates the past tense
constructions "was found" and "were found".

PR-URL: nodejs#35164
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Denys Otrishko <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Derek Lewis <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <[email protected]>
@nodejs-github-bot nodejs-github-bot added doc Issues and PRs related to the documentations. errors Issues and PRs related to JavaScript errors originated in Node.js core. v14.x labels Sep 18, 2020
ruyadorno pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 22, 2020
Error messages are a mix of present and past tense. They should be
mostly or entirely present tense. This eliminates the past tense
constructions "was found" and "were found".

Backport-PR-URL: #35247
PR-URL: #35164
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Denys Otrishko <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Derek Lewis <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <[email protected]>
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@Trott Trott deleted the v14-backport-35164 branch April 14, 2022 11:29
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