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Rule "it is ... to doing (do)"

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Description: it is ... to doing (do)
Message: Did you mean \6?
Category: Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • They think that it is not easy to grasping skills.
    Correction suggestion: grasp
  • It is not on to eating during a church service.
    Correction suggestion: eat
  • If it's necessary to thinking quickly, count me out of the quiz.
    Correction suggestion: think
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • They think that it is not easy to grasp skills.
  • It is close to reducing income.
  • It is similar to building a marketing campaign.
  • It's akin to landing the Mayflower.
  • It's equivalent to sawing off the branch you're sitting on.
  • Now it's on to gaining more support, and beginning the critical step of establishing a special purpose committee.
  • First came the speech; then it was on to eating and drinking.
  • Imagination? It is not essential to dreaming.
  • But, you know it's important to plumbing and allied trades.
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Check the following text against just this rule:

ID: IT_IS_JJ_TO_VBG [1]
Version: 6.5-SNAPSHOT (2024-05-01 22:33:07 +0200)