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Rule "Can you make it working (work) again?"

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Description: Can you make it working (work) again?
Message: Possible tense error.
Category: Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Tags: [picky]
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • Could you please make someone looking into it?
    Correction suggestion: look
  • Just checked Tado and looks great but overall cost makes me thinking of reducing a scope a little or get it in stages.
    Correction suggestion: think
  • That thread made me loading the diaspora code in my IDE.
    Correction suggestion: load
  • The last one I get made me having hallucinations for the first time.
    Correction suggestion: have
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • Mary makes her living by sewing.
  • We could've made it cruising.
  • I'll think more closely about the resource cost of my questions before making them going forward.
  • ...and most who did make it being way behind.
  • The layout is as accurate as we can make it scaling the drawings available without an actual survey.
  • He made one probing question about the company's quarterly report.
  • It's worth the hassle to make you stunning, fashionable, you'll steal her man.
  • Made me outgoing, social, and adventurous.
  • The syntax makes her meaning stronger.
  • It doesn't just make it scorching hot but will actually melt the plastic.
  • They made it trending topic in Twitter.
  • It goes beyond the basics making them intriguing, interesting.
  • His ensemble made him imposing and attractive.
  • The number of times makes it concerning.
  • That is what makes it calming for me too.
  • This made them intimidating as they were much larger than their opponents.
  • The pool made me freezing.
  • He made it using only shades of blue.
  • I made it using Canva.
  • I made it using photoshop.
  • Don't worry about it, it makes you endearing.
  • I made it using animations and photoshop.
  • I don't know why they make someone dying seem funny.
  • ...or who made it meaning, God’s creatio...
  • He only made it doing crimes.
  • He fixed some things to make it inviting for them.
  • ... making them sitting ducks.
  • She put it in the sun to make it blazing hot.
  • She made us matching friendship bracelets.
  • They made him being bi and genderfluid like, a big deal.
  • Using LanguageTool to check your grammar make you writing more credible.
  • You're making me dripping wet right now!
  • You know, the ones you made me hanging on my refrigerator right now?
  • They got heavier, making them excruciating to remove.
  • His innocent incompetence still made him endearing to the heroine.
  • In 1989, Neil Gaiman made them recurring characters in his comic series The Sandman.
  • They have become an amalgam of Chaos Marine, daemon and heavy armor, and bear the ability to transform their bodies to form powerful weapons, making them walking gun platforms.
  • The Great Heep only made one showing in 1989 on BBC's Going Live!, which was a Saturday morning children's show—it was split into two parts over two weeks.
  • The lyrical content of the Descendents made them being cited at the time as one of the most significant punk bands of the 1980s hardcore punk movement.
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ID: DO_MAKE_PRP_VBG [1]
Version: 6.5-SNAPSHOT (2024-04-28 22:33:06 +0200)