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Rule "missing verb after 'if there'"

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Description: missing verb after 'if there'
Message: Please check whether a verb is missing here or whether 'there' should be 'their'.
Category: Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • The workers have also threatened that if there demands are not met, they will go on strike again.
    Correction suggestion: their demands
  • If there one who has influenced my thinking, it is my mother.
    Correction suggestion: their one
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • If there even are people more beautiful than you, there won't be many of them
  • If there's anything out of place then please take a closer look.
  • I wanted to see if there really was someone out there.
  • I wonder if there will be a man brave enough to fight him.
  • We shall meet again in Petersburg, as if there we had buried the sun.
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Check the following text against just this rule:

ID: IF_THERE [6]
Version: 6.5-SNAPSHOT (2024-04-28 22:33:06 +0200)