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These are the errors that LanguageTool can detect. Visit the LanguageTool homepage to use it online or download it for free.
| Description | Example | Category |
|---|---|---|
| Unpaired braces, brackets, quotation marks and similar symbols | "I'm over here, she said. | Punctuation |
| Word repetition (e.g. 'will will') | This is is just an example sentence. | Miscellaneous |
| Use of 'a' vs. 'an' | The train arrived a hour ago. | Miscellaneous |
| Successive sentences beginning with the same word | Moreover, the street is almost entirely residential. Moreover, it was named after a poet. | Style |
| Hyphenated words, e.g., 'case-sensitive' instead of 'case sensitive' | I now have a part time job. | Miscellaneous |
| Spelling of English contractions | We havent earned anything. | Possible Typo |
| commonly confused words (proscribe/prescribe, heroine/heroin etc.) | I have proscribed you a course of antibiotics. | Commonly Confused Words |
| Checks if hyphenated words were spelled with dashes (e.g., 'T — shirt' instead 'T-shirt'). | Miscellaneous | |
| Coherent spelling of words with two admitted variants. | He likes archaeology. Really? She likes archeology, too. | Miscellaneous |
| brother-in-laws (brothers-in-law) | How many brothers-in-laws do you have? | Possible Typo |
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