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Rule "A lot of money is getting spend (spent) these days"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

Description: A lot of money is getting spend (spent) these days
Message: Double-check that this verb is correct. Did you mean to use the past participle or the infinitive form here?
Category: Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • It got receive by all recipients.
    Correction suggestion: to receive, received
  • The victim got manipulate by one character I will call “Mr.S”.
    Correction suggestion: to manipulate, manipulated
  • Apologies, I got mislead by the newrelic file in the stack trace, this appears to be an issue with django 1.9 wsgi.
    Correction suggestion: to mislead, misled
  • I'm hoping that once I get speak to work, I can use my Google home for announcements.
    Correction suggestion: to speak, spoken
  • And who gets decide what beliefs are right?
    Correction suggestion: to decide, decided
  • What I mean, if The Dragon Soul and Infernal King get resurrect once, they're Legendary.
    Correction suggestion: to resurrect, resurrected
  • If you get have a night of insomnia, may I suggest the attached.
    Correction suggestion: to have, had
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • Do you get withdraw symptoms when changing med?
  • Would you say the heat readings I got indicate at least that the cat is shot either way?
  • The allocation reports he gets do not reflect this point since it is not in a division.
  • And does the amount of support you get determine how ill you are?
  • The results that you get depend on the values of the parameters that you set.
  • The count(*) results I get seem to be incorrect for any value > 1000 (even the json results).
  • Would you say the heat readings I got indicate at least that the cat is shot either way?
  • The allocation reports he gets do not reflect this point since it is not in a division.
ID: GET_VBN [1]
Version: 6.6-SNAPSHOT (2024-11-13 22:33:09 +0100)