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Rule "a fleet of ships have (has)"
This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.
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a fleet of ships have (has) |
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Possible agreement error |
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Grammar
(ID: GRAMMAR)
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Correct sentences
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- A fleet of ships has been spotted.
- A couple of developers have let me know they are discussing your issue.
- 3M has increased its dividend for over 60 consecutive years, a milestone that only a small handful of companies have reached.
- Physicist Justin Crepp says the prospects for finding life out there are very good: “If tens of a percent of stars have planets that could resemble the earth and potentially have life, then the implications are that there are billions of them just within our Milky Way Galaxy.”
- Take, for example, the United States where only 1.8 per cent of homes have broadband access, while 27 per cent have narrowband access.
- But a host of creditors have asked the court to delay the sale indefinitely.
- A raft of corporates have delayed implementing the Financial Accounting Standards Board's Statement 133, and are scrambling to meet the deadline, which for most companies is Jan. 1.
- Steve Maviglio, press secretary to Gov. Gray Davis, said the governor "strongly supports any attempt to bring prices down for Californians and to break the grip a handful of generators have on the electricity market.
- What sort of dreams have you been having?
- What sort of dreams were you having?
- Feminism and the role of women were also recurring themes throughout the show, with some critics seeing each of the major female characters portraying an aspect as a flawed feminist in her own way.
- Historically, mathematicians who favored a "rich" and "large" universe of sets were against CH, while those favoring a "neat" and "controllable" universe favored CH.
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COLLECTIVE_NOUN_VERB_AGREEMENT_VBD [1]
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6.6-SNAPSHOT (2024-11-23 22:33:10 +0100)
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