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    Resolved [RESOLVED] What to use?

    Hello, i'm a bit confused on whether i must use on error input. So the input is i selected the items via checkbox and it is failed but i'm a bit confused of which of the following i must use:

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    Sorry, deleting accounts is failed. Please try again later.
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    Sorry, deleting accounts are failed. Please try again later.
    I'm a bit confused of the two of what to use auxiliary verb on the error, please give me an idea if i must use is or are for i think accounts is a mass noun that can be use is but on the other side it's plural so i must use are please give me an answer of what i must use thank you.

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    Re: What to use?

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    I would offer that the key word is deleting .. a verb.
    So, neither is nor are.

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    Sorry, deleting accounts failed. Please try again later.
    Put another way ..
    Code:
    Sorry, the deleting process failed. Please try again later.
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    Re: What to use?

    Based on the sorts of error messages I'm seeing from big players these days, you might like to consider something like:
    Sorry, we were unable to delete the accounts. Please try again later.
    By the way, the Chit Chat forum is more for non-programming topics. This thread would have been better posted in General Developer.

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    Re: What to use?

    By the way, if you wanted to go with a more correct form of what you had initially it would probably be:
    Sorry, deleting accounts has failed. Please try again later.
    Proper grammar would require a bit more but that is perfectly acceptable for terse communication.

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    Re: What to use?

    Quote Originally Posted by jmcilhinney View Post
    By the way, if you wanted to go with a more correct form of what you had initially it would probably be:

    Proper grammar would require a bit more but that is perfectly acceptable for terse communication.
    Yes but can i use just:

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    Sorry, deleting accounts are failed. Please try again later.
    For i have to go to the flow with other output errors for their using is and are. Using are is more appropriate than is with that sentence right?

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    Re: What to use?

    Quote Originally Posted by apokalypto View Post
    Yes but can i use just:

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    Sorry, deleting accounts are failed. Please try again later.
    No you can't, because that's saying that the accounts have failed rather than the deleting. It's just plain wrong.
    Quote Originally Posted by apokalypto View Post
    For i have to go to the flow with other output errors for their using is and are. Using are is more appropriate than is with that sentence right?
    It may well be that those other messages are wrong too then, although it depends on exactly what they're saying. If you want to stick as closely to the same format as you can but actually say what you mean to say and be grammatically correct then use "has".

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    Re: What to use?

    Quote Originally Posted by jmcilhinney View Post
    No you can't, because that's saying that the accounts have failed rather than the deleting. It's just plain wrong.

    It may well be that those other messages are wrong too then, although it depends on exactly what they're saying. If you want to stick as closely to the same format as you can but actually say what you mean to say and be grammatically correct then use "has".
    Thank you, but regarding this:

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    The selected records are successfully deleted.
    Code:
    The selected records are cannot be deleted.
    What is the proper words for this one this is an alert message.

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    Re: What to use?

    Neither one is good English. For the first, I would say:
    The selected records have been successfully deleted.
    for the second I would say:
    The selected records cannot be deleted.
    Interestingly, you are using a form of English that is found in parts of the deep south in the US, but it isn't correct, it's just a local dialect.
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    Re: [RESOLVED] What to use?

    Or you could use:
    The selected records were successfully deleted.

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