I am developing a search control, where user types in and it returns search results. When I get no matching result what message would be correct in that case?
a) 0 result
b) 0 results
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One is singular; all else is plural. Your posting for duplicates record is now at 100%. Please take the time to do your research first next time; it's rude to make other people do your work for you. – tchrist May 23 '15 at 18:30
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Zero is neither singular nor plural semantically. As a quantifier of result it can modify either; depends, really, on whether one considers result a count or mass noun in the context. – John Lawler May 23 '15 at 18:33
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@tchrist I am extremely sorry about that but I did not know how to search for that, I even ended up attaching wrong tag. I am not very familiar to this site I am still learning. Thanks for helping me out. But of-course the link you pointed that has no concrete answer to my question. – dev gr May 23 '15 at 18:36
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@JohnLawler Is it common to write the digit 0 for negation of mass nouns? I’d always write “there’s no air here” not “there’s 0 air here” myself. – tchrist May 23 '15 at 18:38
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I searched for *zero plural* and found zero quantified noun which seems an exact duplicate. – Andrew Leach May 23 '15 at 18:42
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Depends on the kind of writing you do, and what your audience expects, I spose. Zero is a word that has a lot of impact, and I would usually spell it out for effect when using it for effect. But I can think of situations like _We tried every method we could think of to produce the condensate; output: 0.__ – John Lawler May 23 '15 at 18:42