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Rule "Agreement: 'been' or 'was' + past tense"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

Description: Agreement: 'been' or 'was' + past tense
Message: Consider using either the past participle <suggestion>\2</suggestion> or the present participle <suggestion>\2</suggestion> here.
Category: Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Link: https://languagetool.org/insights/post/verb-tenses/
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • The software was introduce yesterday.
    Correction suggestion: introduced, introducing
  • The program has been introduce.
    Correction suggestion: introduced, introducing
  • The code is test.
    Correction suggestion: tested, testing
  • The gift has been gave.
    Correction suggestion: given, giving
  • It is need for review.
    Correction suggestion: needed, needing
  • If the body has not been inter, yet...
    Correction suggestion: interred, interring
  • We know that he was father by a great warrior.
    Correction suggestion: fathered, fathering
  • He has been did this for many years.
    Correction suggestion: done, doing
  • He is suppose to win.
    Correction suggestion: supposed, supposing
  • I was believe that it is correct.
    Correction suggestion: believed, believing
  • When the text can't be check because it is too short.
    Correction suggestion: checked, checking
  • What he is do helps us all.
    Correction suggestion: done, doing
  • As per Sonja Galloway's request, we have been ask to supply this information no later than close of business tomorrow.
    Correction suggestion: asked, asking
  • He did that three times until Harold was kill.
    Correction suggestion: killed, killing
  • But I think a working alpha can rapidly be develop in days.
    Correction suggestion: developed, developing
  • To this end, a users' group was establish.
    Correction suggestion: established, establishing
  • We are please to announce the addition of John Postlethwaite as the head of Portland Risk Management.
    Correction suggestion: pleased, pleasing
  • Rice University is please to invite you Thursday, November 30, 2000.
    Correction suggestion: pleased, pleasing
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • It remains to be seem whether we can accomplish that
  • The park has been open for many years.
  • It has been done.
  • It has been love's whip.
  • The only question I have is did Jesus really die?
  • What time is check out?
  • When is check out time?
  • All you have to do is go and ask.
  • The other patrons were taxi drivers.
  • You're father
  • All she does is eat.
  • It would be end of November.
  • We're test subjects.
  • I've met with the new Enron CFO when he was COO at Net Works and think he is a complete asshole.
  • What time is check out?
  • Her soon to be husband.
  • We ask Yahoo!'s COO for his take.
  • Submittal of standard exemption documention for the NNG Kermit, Plainview, Seminole and Brownfield C/S's were submitted to the TNRCC.
  • Loud's pen had a small rotating steel ball, held in place by a socket.
  • Obviously you identified with it's message.
  • To be clear, what we are trying to do with Ridley now is go through the painstaking process of trying to break the back of the story ...
  • It's swim or die.
  • It was no one's fault.
  • A very important word is please.
  • Mr. Wiedemann was previously founder, chairman and CEO of Grey Direct Worldwide, a direct marketing agency.
  • He engraves the solider's name in fine marble to honor him.
  • It's Step 1 in a long, long process.
  • It is Step 2 in a long, long process.
  • Usually it’s buy 2, get 1 free so it works out to about $11 a unit.
  • Everybody's fault is nobody's fault.
  • Today is bring your kid to work day.
  • His being was not perfect.
  • The very next day after the departure of it's friend, it felt lonely.
  • Main Engines are GO … 3… 2… 1… And we have liftoff!”
  • Should old acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind?
  • My favorite team is Inter Milano in Italy.
  • It was sunday afternoon and I was waiting for a bus.
  • The Anchorage art exhibit is to raise awareness about autism.
  • It was google who shut down the integration because they are tightening up all of their external authorization paths as part of a new security review.
  • Your idea cannot be brand new. I heard about it from another source last year.
  • What we are trying to do with Ridley now is go through the painstaking process of trying to...
  • Their opponents were club president Cesar de Zulueta and Valentin Barr.
  • ... question of this school was whether Being came before Not-Being (in Chinese, 'ming' and ...
  • The Oculate Being was usually shown
  • The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me.
  • A 10-day-old pup can die from being host to as few as 25 'A. caninum' worms.
  • ... visited the islands (of whom 443,987 were cruise ship passengers).
  • The question is can you do everything we've asked...
  • The question is did she know about the...
  • The Egyptians believed that every human being was composed of ...
  • All systems are go.
  • What is Google AMP?
  • It doesn’t appear to be phone based, but I’m not sure it isn’t an Android problem.
  • You will be queen.
  • I am believe you.
  • What we tried to do with Ridley now was go through the painstaking process of trying to...
  • What we are trying to do now is go through the painstaking process of trying to...
  • What we are trying to do is go through the painstaking process of trying to...
  • He wanted to be quarterback.
  • It's going to be season 3.
  • Even being host to exchange students can benefit kids.
  • In my language, the notes of the scale are do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do.
  • Can a being create the fifty billion galaxies...
  • According to Diodorus, he was father of six sons by Cyane.
  • Tom and Mary were neck and neck.
  • All Tom did was eat.
  • All I did was tell you what Tom told me.
  • In case you were please disregard this notice.
  • They were peach and yellow roses.
  • The 3 Rs are Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.
  • Please don't interrupt — I'm try...
  • They were ask…
  • The bottom line is go out, buy stocks and go out and buy in ...
  • What I don't want to do, however, is go all the way through arbitration
  • The best thing we can do for California is get out of this mess we're in.
  • The best thing we did for California was get out of this mess we're in.
  • So the key to this method is don't add the Hue dimmer to your SmartThings account.
  • Examples of such groups are Take 6, Glad and Acappella.
  • All I have ever done is ask Holloway to pay you with what he owes me for my finishes in the league.
  • All I want to do now is get back to work.
  • All I really wanted to do then was get back to work.
  • All I can do at the moment is sit here and listen.
  • What we're trying to do here is strike a blow at the heart of the scalping operation.
  • All Tom does nowadays is swim.
  • Now, all Gore has to do on that fateful day in the U.S. Senate is reject for certification the Electoral College votes of Florida, and he wins the majority and becomes president.
  • What we're going to do today is go for a walk.
  • My hobby is stamp collecting.
  • All you need to do to get started today is update your merckmedco.com profile with a recent prescription number.
  • The thing to do when you get in a hole is stop digging.
  • What the Russians need to do in relations with the U.S., Perle suggested, is drop their old agenda.
  • What I wish to do here is choose three examples.
  • What we`re going to do now is go to the "Markets Desk"
  • What I wish to do is choose three examples.
  • These bivalves are filter and/or deposit feeders, which rely on ambient primary production rather than inputs of fish or other feed.
  • While opening an ammunition container 2 deputies were exposed to a yellow gas, thought to be tear gas.
  • There will be follow up and plans will be required.
  • What I have recently done is accept all of GC's changes and then reflected the items.
  • All Amgas does today is administer our sales function.
  • The lady call me about the apartment, the prospect that was there before I was did not get it.
  • But what we do instead, is making ...
  • Everything he's wanted to be was a doctor.
  • Second is buy high with up to 99% of available capital and sell higher.
  • It's my turn to be host.
  • I think I’m hoist by my own petard.
  • When death approaches, all you can do is slowly chew your fingernails.
  • Probably the wisest thing to do is ask a whole lot of questions.
  • The only thing Tom and Mary ever do is complain.
  • All you've done with your worthless life is disappoint ever yone.
  • So now all I wanna do is just spend as much time with you as possible.
  • The only other sporting event that began before cricket was horse racing, which started in 1796.
  • All are bate stamped
  • That was bollocks.
  • these should probably be book to book transactions
  • They were nose to nose.
  • Therefore, my question to you, is do we drop the independent amount language from the original confirmation and provide alternative language referencing the new specific guaranty.
  • What fuel there was went to panzer divisions
  • I guess I just recognize that all that big brain has ever done is get you into trouble.
  • So now all I'm going to do is just spend as much time with you as possible.
  • What this system does, is allow a user to post to a topic, or a range of topics, in one group
  • What you could do is create a virtual contact sensor with switch capabilities.
  • So if there is anything we can do about it is try to attract some new contributors who might at some point want to become constant maintainers.
  • Ok, the only one solution as I see is allow admins see the content and admins may be trusted persons.
ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT [9]
Version: 6.6-SNAPSHOT (2024-11-24 22:33:09 +0100)