Browse Rules: 6,146 matches
These are some of the errors that LanguageTool can detect. Visit the LanguageTool homepage to use it online.
| Description | Example | Category |
|---|---|---|
| Mathematics: +- - ± | m = 75,5 -+ 0,1 g | Typography |
| Non-standard comma | Be careful，this is not a standard comma. | Typography |
| Non-standard comma | Be careful， because this is not a standard comma. | Typography |
| Non-standard question mark | Is he an average person？ | Typography |
| Non-standard character in a word | Please оpen the door. (Contains Cyrillic small letter 'o', Unicode U+043E.) | Typography |
| Spelling mistakes in proper nouns (4 tokens) | Thé Dákk Kínght Ríses. | Orthographic errors |
| Spelling mistakes in proper nouns (4 tokens) | Rocki Mountains National Park. | Orthographic errors |
| Spelling mistakes in proper nouns (4 tokens) | Rocki montains National Park. | Orthographic errors |
| Spelling mistakes in proper nouns (4 tokens) | Rocki Mountains nacional Park. | Orthographic errors |
| Spelling mistakes in proper nouns (4 tokens) | Rocki Mountains National Parrk. | Orthographic errors |
| Spelling mistakes in proper nouns (3 tokens) | By yuval Noha Harari. | Orthographic errors |
| Spelling mistakes in proper nouns (3 tokens) | Yuval Noha Hariri. | Orthographic errors |
| Spelling mistakes in proper nouns (3 tokens) | Yuval Noha hariri. | Orthographic errors |
| Spelling mistakes in proper nouns (3 tokens) | Yuvl Noha Hariri. | Orthographic errors |
| Spelling mistakes in proper nouns (3 tokens) | Antoin de Saint-Exupéry. | Orthographic errors |
| Spelling mistakes in proper nouns (3 tokens) | Leonardo Da Vinsi. | Orthographic errors |
| Spelling mistakes in proper nouns (2 tokens) | britaney speers. | Orthographic errors |
| Spelling mistakes in proper nouns (2 tokens) | Garcia Máquez. | Orthographic errors |
| Spelling mistakes in proper nouns (2 tokens) | Woodye Alen | Orthographic errors |
| Smart ellipsis (…) | This is important... as far as I know. | Style |
| Google product names (style rules) | We use Google Adwords. | Style |
| Microsoft product names (style rules) | We are using Bing Ads in our advertising strategy. | Style |
| Light-year as a unit of time | It all seems light-years ago now. | Style |
| Twitter (X) | I have seen his message on Twitter. | Style |
| Twitter (X) | Twitter's owner is Elon Musk. | Style |
| Twitter (X) | Twitter is my favorite social media app. | Style |
| Twitter (X) | Check my Twitter account. | Style |
| busses (buses) | Two busses were taking the kids to school. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | The children haven't been saved by the police. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | The children have been saved by the police. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | The project has not yet been finalized by the team. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | The project has already been finalized by the team. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | The project hadn't yet been finalized by the team. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | The project had already been finalized by the team. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | The project wasn't yet finalized by the team. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | The project was already finalized by the team. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | These claims are not supported by epidemiologic data. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | Also, most arithmetic expressions are generated by context-free grammars. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | The children are saved by the police. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | The children are not saved by the fireman. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | The children are saved by the fireman. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | As if in answer to Jimmy's complaint, the city is threatened by a typhoon. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | He is not saved by her. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | The superior man controls things, he is not controlled by them. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | She wasn't intimidated by him. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | They are not reprimanded by the teacher. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | They are not saved by the police. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | They were not saved by the police. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | My car has not been followed by them. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | My car has not been followed by her. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | The documents had not yet been reviewed by him. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | Tom has been saved by the police. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | Tom has been saved by Mary. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | He has been saved by the police. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | He has been saved by Mary. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | Tom is saved by the police. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | Tom is saved by Mary. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | In other temples, Confucius is represented by a memorial tablet. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | He is saved by the police. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | He is saved by Mary. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | Tom isn't saved by the police. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | Tom isn't saved by Mary. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | Other days, Angela is not chosen by Sam. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | He isn't saved by the police. | Style |
| simple cases of passive voice | He isn't saved by Mary. | Style |
| more easy (easier, less difficult), more clear (clearer, apparent, obvious, evident) to | Doing it this way is more easy than the previous method. | Style |
| more easy (easier, less difficult), more clear (clearer, apparent, obvious, evident) to | It became more clear to me that she didn't know what she was talking about. | Style |
| fastly (quickly) | He ran fastly. | Style |
| 'please' twice in a sentence | Please could have a look at this, please? | Style |
| 'please' twice in a sentence | Please would you please provide a name | Style |
| 'please' twice in a sentence | Please could you have a look at this please? | Style |
| I'm not very experienced too (either) | I'm not very experienced too. | Style |
| I'm not very experienced too (either) | You don't have too. | Style |
| I'm not very experienced too (either) | I am not able too. | Style |
| I'm not very experienced too (either) | I hate not having too. | Style |
| anyways (anyway) | Anyways, I don't like it. | Style |
| abbreviation 'ppl' | Many ppl use LanguageTool. | Style |
| I saw it and I (0) should have said something to you | Well I saw it and I should have said something to you. | Style |
| It's supposed to prevent it (from) spilling over | It's supposed to prevent it spilling. | Style |
| They were used to hunt (for hunting) partridges | They are used to hunt partridges. | Style |
| Warn when the serial comma is not used | She speaks Spanish, German and French. | Style |
| Warn when the serial comma is not used | While air, water and food are necessary for life, we cannot so easily categorize the prerequisites of happiness. | Style |
| Warn when the serial comma is not used | Stocking, George, Jr. (Race, Culture and Evolution). | Style |
| Warn when the serial comma is not used | In addition to buses, trams and taxis, popular modes of transport are ... | Style |
| Warn when the serial comma is not used | The car is special, fast and nice to look at. | Style |
| Warn when the serial comma is not used | It's wireless, portable and rechargeable, up to 3 hours. | Style |
| Warn when the serial comma is not used | It's too expensive, inefficient, slow and difficult to roll out and transport. | Style |
| Warn when the serial comma is not used | Texts can be checked right in Apple Mail, Notes and Messages. | Style |
| This will allow (allows) them to bloom... | This will allow them to bloom in the spring. | Style |
| Warn when the serial comma is used (incomplete) | The pen, pencil, and book are on the desk. | Style |
| a whole other (entirely different) issue | That brings up a whole other issue, but I'll stop here. | Style |
| week-end (weekend) | Let's meet on the week-end to play some tennis. | Style |
| there're → there are | There're problems in Iraq. | Style |
| Are not (formal) → Aren't | Are not you the cause of this for me? | Style |
| Are not (formal) → Aren't | Am not I lucky? | Style |
| Are not (formal) → Aren't | Can not you get it? | Style |
| Are not (formal) → Aren't | Why would not that work? | Style |
| Are not (formal) → Aren't | Why am not I enough for you? | Style |
| Are not (formal) → Aren't | Why can not I share a regular binary file? | Style |
| Not sure (if) it works | Not sure it works like this. | Style |
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