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Rule "confusion of 'an' and 'and'"

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Description: confusion of 'an' and 'and'
Message: Did you mean and?
Category: Commonly Confused Words (ID: CONFUSED_WORDS)
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • He is great an he is fast.
    Correction suggestion: and
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • Hence, that an I is not maximal and therefore the notions of prime ideal and maximal ideal are equivalent in Boolean algebras.
  • We have an IT fix in place.
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Check the following text against just this rule:

ID: AN_AND [11]
Version: 6.6-SNAPSHOT (2024-10-10 22:33:07 +0200)