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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 anna@addaleax.net
Reviewed-By: Denys Otrishko shishugi@gmail.com
Reviewed-By: Derek Lewis DerekNonGeneric@inf.is
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca luigipinca@gmail.com

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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 <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Denys Otrishko <shishugi@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Derek Lewis <DerekNonGeneric@inf.is>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
@nodejs-github-botnodejs-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
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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".
Backport-PR-URL: #35247
PR-URL: #35164
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Denys Otrishko <shishugi@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Derek Lewis <DerekNonGeneric@inf.is>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
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