doc: use present tense in error messages

Trott · ruyadorno · commit 836680a4eaf3 · 2020-09-21T21:23:40.000-04:00
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>
diff --git a/doc/api/errors.md b/doc/api/errors.md
@@ -1391,7 +1391,7 @@ An invalid or unknown file encoding was passed.
 <a id="ERR_INVALID_PACKAGE_CONFIG"></a>
 ### `ERR_INVALID_PACKAGE_CONFIG`
 
-An invalid `package.json` file was found which failed parsing.
+An invalid `package.json` file failed parsing.
 
 <a id="ERR_INVALID_PACKAGE_TARGET"></a>
 ### `ERR_INVALID_PACKAGE_TARGET`
@@ -1608,8 +1608,8 @@ is thrown if a required option is missing.
 ### `ERR_MISSING_MESSAGE_PORT_IN_TRANSFER_LIST`
 
 An object that needs to be explicitly listed in the `transferList` argument
-was found in the object passed to a `postMessage()` call, but not provided in
-the `transferList` for that call. Usually, this is a `MessagePort`.
+is in the object passed to a `postMessage()` call, but is not provided
+in the `transferList` for that call. Usually, this is a `MessagePort`.
 
 <a id="ERR_MISSING_PASSPHRASE"></a>
 ### `ERR_MISSING_PASSPHRASE`
@@ -2092,7 +2092,7 @@ import 'package-name'; // supported
 ### `ERR_VALID_PERFORMANCE_ENTRY_TYPE`
 
 While using the Performance Timing API (`perf_hooks`), no valid performance
-entry types were found.
+entry types are found.
 
 <a id="ERR_VM_DYNAMIC_IMPORT_CALLBACK_MISSING"></a>
 ### `ERR_VM_DYNAMIC_IMPORT_CALLBACK_MISSING`
