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Rule "extraneous apostrophes before 'are'"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

Description: extraneous apostrophes before 'are'
Message: <pleasespellme/>Did you mean the plural noun <suggestion><pleasespellme/>\1</suggestion> instead of the possessive?
Category: Punctuation (ID: PUNCTUATION)
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • The car's are cheap.
    Correction suggestion: cars
  • the ID's are not to a row
    Correction suggestion: IDs, Ids
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • Tom's are not quite as clean as Mary's.
  • Today's are attached below.
ID: APOS_ARE [1]
Version: 6.8-SNAPSHOT (2025-10-26 22:33:08 +0100)