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Rule "Agreement: 'have' + past/present tense"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

Description: Agreement: 'have' + past/present tense
Message: Possible agreement error – use the past participle here.
Category: Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Link: https://languagetool.org/insights/post/to-have-grammar/
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • I have like her since I first met her.
    Correction suggestion: liked
  • I have cc you on this message.
    Correction suggestion: cc'd
  • Tom hopes that Mary knows that she has do everything John has told her to do.
    Correction suggestion: done
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • I have liked her since I first met her.
  • Noun: If we have company we will break out the beer.
  • Noun: If the members of this club have company they must be on their best behaviour.
  • The person has Type I Diabetes.
  • Layla wasn't an educated woman and all she had was her virtue.
  • Layla wasn't an educated woman and all that she had was her virtue.
  • Layla wasn't an educated woman and all the things she had were her ...
  • I'd love to have dinner one evening if that suits.
  • Have fun you guys.
  • We will have full IT overnight support.
  • I'd love to have lunch one day.
  • I have people I need to talk to.
  • Tom has type one diabetes.
  • Do you have proof that God exists?
  • I don't have job We need all the food we can get.
  • The integers and the rational numbers have rank one, as well as every subgroup of the rationals.
  • One other effect that Liberal land reforms had was the start of coffee plantations, especially in the Soconusco region.
  • One thought that John Singer and Jim Javins had was to have someone named Hiedi in Jim's office.
  • What Tom and Mary had was special.
  • The gray connector on 80-conductor cables has pin 28 CSEL not connected
  • we do not have Cycle 7 data in the database
  • Kim, Deal 93485 has meter 7268 attached to it.
  • She has tier 2 support.
  • The last page we have has figure 6, but it looks like there was supposed to be further sections.
  • They have significantly lower approval ratings.
  • Also, the "outs" they have are very broad.
  • What operational abilities the armed forces had were gradually destroyed by politicisation of the forces.
  • Several CPA's assured us that the tax treatment fears we had were not a significant risk.
  • Mary was positive that the camera Tom had was hers.
  • Mary was positive that the cameras Tom had were hers.
  • Whatever energy Abner had went into evading the marital goals of Daisy Mae Scragg.
  • The most valuable pieces of business functionality DealBench has are the data rooms and auctions.
  • The only jobs Tom and Mary have ever had are the ones they have now.
  • The only job Tom and Mary have ever had is the one they have now.
  • I was a bit afraid to share because it had web.archive copyright notices all over the HTML.
  • I have win 10.
  • I have GAD (generalized)
  • The ones I do have are beautiful.
  • The ones I really want to have are beautiful.
  • The only gas CES has are the Exhibit 1 volumes.
  • The tools Graaag should have are all broken.
ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT [4]
Version: 6.6-SNAPSHOT (2024-11-10 22:33:08 +0100)