Grammar with new messages

[alxmarcond]

okay, so I'm working on this skin for SMF forum softwares and i would like to get the new private messages to turn out something like this

 

1 message awaits you.

0 messages await you.

2 messages await you.

 

and i have it set up correctly where it changes the message to messages if the value of unread_messages is not equal to zero but the problem is the word await or awaits. Right now it is saying:

 

1 message await you.

2 messages await you.

 

obviously this is grammatically incorrect. so the obvious way to do this is to just append the word awaits after the messages thing but everytime i do this i get this error:

 

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ',' in .....

 

its on the right line so i know its not something else plus when i change it back to its original state it works fine.

 

Here is what works at the moment

 

						echo $txt[''], ' <a href="', $scripturl, '?action=pm">', $context['user']['unread_messages'], $txt[''], ' ', $context['user']['unread_messages'] != 1 ? $txt['msg_alert_messages'] : $txt['message_lowercase'], '</a>', ' await you.', '<br>';

 

and here is my attempt:

 

						echo $txt[''], ' <a href="', $scripturl, '?action=pm">', $context['user']['unread_messages'], $txt[''], ' ', $context['user']['unread_messages'] != 1 ? $txt['msg_alert_messages'], 'await' : $txt['message_lowercase'], 'awaits', '</a>', ' you.', '<br>';

 

thanks in advance for any help