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Rule "Had + verb present tense"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

Description: Had + verb present tense
By default, this rule is not active in LanguageTool
Message: Possible agreement error — use the past participle here.
Category: Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Link: https://languagetool.org/insights/post/verb-tenses/
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • They had play the game
    Correction suggestion: played
  • If I’d known the context, I would never had spend a second on searching or doing them.
    Correction suggestion: spent
  • That was the only thing Tom had do.
    Correction suggestion: done
  • Now Apple had launch the new iPad Pro to the market, and I want to know if you know is this program will be available on iOS.
    Correction suggestion: launched
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • The jobs I have had are now not essential to my career anymore.
  • Any traits it had are removed from any lists of trigger conditions.
  • I felt tortured every second and now those horrid symptoms I had are gone.
  • All other exceptions you had are the same as what GlobalCounterparty came up with.
  • We are resisting Bridgeline's claim to an additional month of storage due to the fact that had gas been released in January 2002.
  • I was a bit afraid to share because it had web.archive copyright notices all over the HTML.
  • The outbreak had ripple effects across every industry.
ID: HAD_VBP [1]
Version: 6.6-SNAPSHOT (2024-11-23 22:33:10 +0100)