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Rule "Adverb instead of an adjective"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

Description: Adverb instead of an adjective
Message: You used an adverb ('\2') instead of an adjective, or a noun ('\3') instead of another adjective.
Category: Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Link: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/internet-grammar/adverbs/xadvb1.htm
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • This is a philosophically question.
    Correction suggestion: philosophical question
  • It's a really solution.
    Correction suggestion: real solution
  • It's a simply solution.
    Correction suggestion: simple solution
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • This is a philosophical question.
  • Mc-Master-Carr is a supply company.
  • It's nothing impressive. It's just a bit part in that play.
  • The picture is done in a masterly style.
  • All of a sudden water came down from the roof.
  • That was a really kind of weird conversation.
  • A completely oil based solution.
  • It requires a SO number.
  • Make a multiply equation.
  • What does a actually stand for?
  • Ask Student A why he is busy.
  • Diversity Dick Liebert reported that questions for the ETC survey are currently being developed.
  • Such a person may once in a while see a good person.
  • Once in a while everything goes wrong.
  • ... to obtain a big break with a too long, too perilous shoot.
  • Some Low Church Anglicans take a strictly memorialist view of the sacrament.
  • Now I just had to email the Fully Developer with an apology.
  • The tenants became the owners of their lands under the newly set-up Land Commission.
  • The relatively progressivist 1940 Constitution was adopted by the Batista administration.
  • Since he yields to the flesh instead of crucifying it, the fleshly man is also subject to feelings of inferiority, insecurity, inadequacy, guilt, worry, and doubt.
  • ... that has devastating consequences in an already stress filled situation.
  • The utility, Wood said, has even experienced a per kilowatt decrease over the last three years from near 8 cents/kWh to near 4.5 cents.
  • We stopped booking a per start accrual sometime last year on all of the Peakers since none of the plants except New Albany were using the reserve.
  • Ghostwriters, technical writers, and textbooks writers are typically paid in a different way: usually a set fee or a per word rate rather than on a percentage of sales.
  • It knocked over a knobbly object as it passed by.
  • It has a really wrinkly surface
  • The already VAT registered customer.
  • Due to the extremely tax inefficient results of what appears to be our only option, we need to be absolutely certain that our understanding is correct.
  • The often say things that make no sense.
ID: A_RB_NN [1]
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