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Rule "live vs life"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

Description: live vs life
Message: Did you mean <suggestion>lives</suggestion> (plural of 'life'), <suggestion>life</suggestion> or <suggestion>love</suggestion>?
Category: Commonly Confused Words (ID: CONFUSED_WORDS)
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • A million people lost their live during the war.
    Correction suggestion: lives, life, love
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • Her parents let her live in a small room called tunpu annexed to the southern wall of her house.
  • The Japanese live on rice.
  • They were eventually released in the 1980s as the Live in Boston album.
ID: LIVE_LIFE [2]
Version: 6.6-SNAPSHOT (2024-12-06 22:33:09 +0100)