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Rule "a infinitive"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

Description: a infinitive
Message: In standard English, the word '\2' is a verb. Please verify that the determiner '\1' is correct, or that a noun is not missing between '\1' and '\2'.
Category: Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Link: https://languagetool.org/insights/post/verbs-as-nouns/
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • … but a happens very rarely.
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • … but that happens very rarely.
  • The book is on the table.
  • ...is placed on top of the opening to support the bricks above.
  • Alabama had an estimated population of under 10,000 people...
  • A disambiguated (or otherwise processed) sentence...
  • The emerging of the butterfly from the...
  • In particular, if A criticizes the actions of B...
  • The Qur'an does not depict...
  • If the ratio a'/a be sufficiently constant, as is often the case....
  • ... with Paul Jones and the Blues Society of Italian bluesman Guido...
  • The voices all die down slowly.
  • ...of black pants with purple jersey made the Ravens the first NFL team to wear dark colors.
  • ...educational programme using time travel as a means to explore scientific ideas and famous...
  • ..., Surprise Package AC-130s were converted to the Pave Pronto configuration...
  • In the off season, Paul O'Neill...
  • ...denotes the open back unrounded vowel and lowercase a denotes the open front unrounded vowel.
  • They've really got the hots for each other.
  • ... that script the way abecedary derives from Latin a be ce de.
  • ... the problem into multiple subproblems and so the conquer stage will be more complex than...
  • ... and there was no discernible flicker if the refresh rate was set to a sufficiently high value.
  • The boy observed the birds all day.
  • I received the thank you mail.
  • ...ethical argument is unsound and fails to solve the is–ought problem posed by David Hume.
  • Okay, so I guess we add "merchandize" to the prohibit.txt?
  • Check out the send to a friend feature next to each article.
  • Chlorophyll a is found in all chloroplasts, as well as their cyanobacterial ancestors.
  • ... but prefer to wait until early 2002 with the next reduction in the refinance rate.
  • Python provides the bisect module.
  • Copulative a is the Greek prefix ἁ- or ἀ- ha-, a-.
  • ... f: R → R, f(x) = ax + b (where a is non-zero) is a bijection.
  • ... (or ski archery), where the rifle is replaced by a recurve bow.
  • It has been awhile since we put the mail feedbag on and had a munch.
  • He lives in the woods all by himself.
  • On the paper she had enumerated the do's and don'ts for him.
  • There are 25 tables in the standard presented in an excel format.
  • We need to effectively adjust the write down of the asset to reflect what we truly believe is collectible.
  • The AN's official newspaper was Secolo d'Italia.
  • ... all strings with the same number of a's as b's, the nonterminal U generates all...
  • In the masculine, Russian also distinguishes between animate and inanimate nouns with regard to the accusative; only the animates carry a marker in this case.
  • The construct state of the noun derives from the free state through one of the following rules: The first involves a vowel alternation, whereby the vowel a becomes u.
  • The informal chemical symbol An is used in general discussions of actinide chemistry to refer to any actinide.
  • The function ƒ(x) may or may not be defined at a, and its precise value at the point x = a does not affect the asymptote.
  • He holds a PhD. in Mathematical Physics from Kings College London and an honours degree in Mathematics from Imperial College.
  • This is done by dividing both sides by a, which is always possible since a is non-zero.
  • However, a is usually pronounced when it ends a word, and occurs also in prefixes ma-, pa- and da-.
  • This means that array a has 3 rows and 2 columns, and the array is of integer type.
  • Houston faxes the confirms to the counterparty.
ID: A_INFINITIVE [3]
Version: 6.6-SNAPSHOT (2024-11-27 22:33:09 +0100)