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Rule "Collocation: Word + to + PRP|NNP|DT"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

Description:	Collocation: Word + to + PRP\|NNP\|DT
Message:	Probably a preposition is missing after '\1'.
Category:	Collocations (ID: COLLOCATIONS)
Incorrect sentences that this rule can detect:	She wants redecorate the house again. Correction suggestion: wants to redecorate Tom refused tell the police officer his name. Correction suggestion: refused to tell
Correct sentences for comparison:	Such attempts have repeatedly been made. My two references have been outstanding. It is no use pretending you know nothing about it. This is way I am refusing the offer. Chanes, Jerome A. Antisemitism: A Reference Handbook, ABC-CLIO, 2004. Although several attempts have been made to restore and re-air the film, all acc... Men's wants become greater in proportion to the increase in their income. Several unsuccessful attempts have discouraged them completely. Repeated failed attempts have resulted in a block of the buyer from our system. Suicide attempts have skyrocketed. The attempted smuggle Should references be ordered? Almost 390 references have been used. Jump ball! I happen to believe, as NCR Chairman Charles Exley Jr. does, that AT&T will mess up NCR should its takeover attempt succeed. Astrological references appear in literature in the works of poets such as Dante Alighieri and Geoffrey Chaucer, and of playwrights such as Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare. Different positions in a rotating frame of reference have different velocities (as seen from an inertial frame of reference).
ID:	ATD_VERBS_TO_COLLOCATION [2]
Version:	6.6-SNAPSHOT (2024-11-25 22:33:08 +0100)