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Rule "Adverb instead of noun"

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Description: Adverb instead of noun
Message: The adverb "\2" cannot be used like a noun.
Category: Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • I tend to move logical content around in the often after I've written something.
  • TMS doesn't currently have the functionally in place.
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • Unfortunately not at the moment.
  • All of a sudden, she spoke out.
  • He is on the harbourside.
  • This is a very, very common mistake so don’t worry.
  • The Assembly likely won't vote the Hertzberg bill out until tomorrow at the earliest.
  • I need a big and not small house.
  • The lively and friendly way of life of the French also left a deep impression on him.
  • Probably after the 1st.
  • As far as the blinking, I’m not sure, but Schlage support should be able to tell you.
  • The near:far DOF ratio is 0.6.
  • This capitalist/socialist debate is not now nor ever will be an either or sort of thing.
  • The teams in bold compete in Serie A currently.
  • Kay, here's the near to last draft of the form.
  • He is providing an online or phone support center.
  • The only after market item is the power steering cooler, as far as trying to replicate things no luck.
  • If you are holding down A shortly after the macro has launched...
  • I’m planning to change the engine anyway in the not to distant future but need it to last several months for now.
  • Many of these standards first appeared in the early to mid 1980s.
  • The sicker of the two is not the one he thinks.
  • The bike leans on the right before turning right.
  • A year ago Enron was the hottest of the hot.
  • Gas market regulatory issues" could include a yet to be drafted EU cross border gas transmission/ trading regulation.
  • These deals have shown up on the not to be confirmed report.
  • The nearby, but less known Temagami Magnetic Anomaly, has striking similarities to the Sudbury Basin.
  • Sami was dropped off at the far.
  • This causes confusion in our groups, because when subsequent deals are transacted with the same counterparty, credit advises us to use the previously provided Annex.
  • I suggest that we support the CPUC decision to delay hearing the advice letter with a big HOWEVER.
  • One of the few, if not the only, times he left Scotland was towards the end of his life, when he returned to Ireland to found the monastery at Durrow.
  • A rainy, truly wet, summer and harvest this year; it was a hard, tormenting year, and a year of suffering and sickness.
  • The big or the small?
  • We will be marketing this conference to over 40,000 targeted individuals, including a direct mail of at least 25,000 and in addition an online and press campaign.
  • I've implied the junction of the organic, the lively, the sweet – in other words, life, the orange – and the mechanical, the cold, the disciplined.
  • The interesting thing, at least I see kind of going forward, is how Californians have really adapted to a really, you know, awful situation.
  • Tom is the only in our class that Mary doesn't get along with.
  • Teaching and preaching are "the main, almost the only, activities of ministry."
  • A day after announcing a $100 million investment from Vulcan Ventures, Oxygen Media, an online and cable network for women, said it is laying off 65 employees and restructuring it business.
  • Ksatrias (Kshatriyas) - the kingly and warrior caste Where did you get all this information?
  • Notes on a soon to be forgotten war.
  • It had a strange, barking dog.
  • During the early and mid-20th century when town gas was produced, tar was a readily available product and extensively used as the binder for road aggregates.
  • Marsupial lion, an extinct species of carnivorous marsupial mammal that lived in Australia from the early to the late Pleistocene Danger was not far behind, as al-Fihri planned a counterattack.
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