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Rule "be + adverb + be"

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Description: be + adverb + be
Message: The grammar seems incorrect. Please check.
Category: Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • It was very is to set up
  • This is however is my first post.
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • I’m not being punished enough.
  • The proof I’m awful is that I always think of bad stuff.
  • May be there is better way though.
  • There's never been a problem before.
  • Tom is likely be late.
  • What is legal is not always just, and what is just is not always legal.
  • Being late is always better than not showing up at all.
  • Good news is there are other meds out there that don’t do this as badly.
  • Where I was yesterday is not your business.
  • I’ve got a very rudimentary way at present which I’m sure is very clunky
  • Automations can’t be written correctly if the state that the device is in is not reliable.
  • who I am inwardly and who I am outwardly are not quite the same person.
  • However, why in the name of all that’s holy are you using gmail?
  • The heads that are here are junior at best with little or no Enron or management experience.
  • People who are not smarter than I am really are not of interest to me.
  • Functionality I am after is a simple on/off.
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ID: BE_RB_BE [1]
Version: 6.5-SNAPSHOT (2024-04-27 22:33:07 +0200)