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Rule "Agreement: 'a' + plural word"

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Description: Agreement: 'a' + plural word
Message: The plural noun "\5" cannot be used with the article "\3". Did you mean \3 \4 \5?
Category: Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • This candy is a jelly beans.
    Correction suggestion: a jelly bean
  • Hi guys I am an IoT fans in Hong Kong.
    Correction suggestion: an IoT fan
  • It would also be nice if there was a dashboard modules where people could go to find dashboards.
    Correction suggestion: a dashboard module
  • Here is a whole collections of teams.
    Correction suggestion: a whole collection
  • If it is still an engine issues, I understand, and as a primarily mobile player, I am not as affected as others.
    Correction suggestion: an engine issue
  • I remember the 30 year olds who would date my female classmates when I was a college freshmen.
    Correction suggestion: a college freshman
  • The attached is a brief outlines of the schedule for the Tuesday, November 13th meeting in Philadelphia.
    Correction suggestion: a brief outline
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • Is there a way users can do this themselves?
  • This is not a guild wars related topic it should be in PC/game chat
  • Your best bet is a VW parts counter that might have a diagram for what you want.
  • I know right now it is a Green Eggs and Ham quote but that doesn’t hold a candle to Lion King!
  • .. and there is an auto parts store close by call them ask if they test charging systems.
  • It's a Jelly Beans product.
  • Greed and the fear of not enough to around is a problem humans have been battling with for millennia.
  • I know that Tom is a little nuts.
  • Fox News (...) is a United States pay television news channel.
  • That's just an old wives' tale.
  • It's a thing women already know.
  • Today, Israel is a major arms supplier to the country.
  • Animalia is an illustrated children's book by Graeme Base.
  • This is a mistake students are apt to make.
  • In the Austro-Hungarian Empire, "Bohemian-Moravian-Slovak" was a language citizens could register as speaking.
  • Now if it was a bonus souls gained per hour boost, that’d be different.
  • Bagpuss is a UK children's television series, made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate from 20 February 1974 to 15 May 1974 through their company Smallfilms.
  • The use of financial hedges to mitigate risk is a trend companies and regulators in Latin America want to encourage.
  • There was a children's party at the Joneses yesterday.
  • He was an Italian children's writer.
  • It is a service shippers can use.
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ID: A_NNS [2]
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