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Grammatical error in prev error message #824

Open nus-pe-bot opened 1 year ago

nus-pe-bot commented 1 year ago

Slight grammatical error in the error message. Perhaps you could say something like "There are no previously generated questions" instead.

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[original: nus-cs2113-AY2223S2/pe-interim#1109] [original labels: severity.VeryLow type.DocumentationBug]

wenxin-c commented 1 year ago

Team's Response

Thank you for the report!

Unfortunately, after much deliberation we have decided to reject this bug.

Your report solely mentioned that there is grammatical error without elaborating on which part is confusing. As a result, the report is ambiguous and we do not know what exactly the confusion is. So, we decided to thoroughly examine this sentence and we eventually could not find any grammatical issue with this sentence.

The team did their own research and do not think that the sentence has any issue. This is our analysis:

"A set of questions" is a collection of questions which is singular. Here, we emphasize that it is a set. Hence, "has" should be used.

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Moreover, "a set of questions" is the object that experiences users' action, hence, a passive voice should be used here. The past participate form of "get" is "gotten". It is about the set of question at sometime up to now, present perfect passive tense should be used (i.e. "has not been gotten"). Here is the link for reference: https://www.grammarbank.com/present-perfect-passive.html

While there are many other ways to deliver the same meaning, there is nothing wrong to use the current sentence.

Lastly, based on context and the self-explanatory nature of the command nameprev(ious), users would be able to interpret the sentence correctly and understand that the common failed as a set of questions has not been retrieved yet based on the error message.

As such we hope you understand why we are rejecting this bug report.

We hope this clarifies, thank you!

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