Do you suffix a word with -s if the count is zero?
i.e: Game starting in 0 seconds.
or is it supposed to be Game starting in 0 second.?
Do you suffix a word with -s if the count is zero?
i.e: Game starting in 0 seconds.
or is it supposed to be Game starting in 0 second.?
I've always put the s there. Sounds better and probably correct, although not logically correct, but then again many things aren't in the English language.
I agree that it sounds better but sometimes English has some strange rules. ;)
I'd say it is "seconds" since that is what we call the measurement.
Crash
Technically 0 seconds don't exist, if it was starting in 0 seconds it would already be starting. Best to just stop the countdown at 1second imo.
The gaming is starting NOW!
Do you have work with this kind of problem or are you just wandering?
It was just an example. What about this sentence:Originally Posted by GiantRobert
There x zero cupcakey.
Should x be 'is' or 'are'?
Should y be 's' or none?
True but there are still cases such as:
There is 1 hour, 32 minutes and 0 seconds left.
Crash
I'd say it is seconds.
There are no cupcakes. I wouldn't use zero or 0 in that situation.
Remove the display for the "and 0 seconds". Having that would be bad translating/coding frankly
Seconds.
Aswell, don't forget that sometimes you'll have to add ', to make it plural.
That's if the word ends with a '' S ''.
It's most understandable with GiantRobert's explanation. Either of '0 second' and '0 seconds' is particularly impotent.
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