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Rule "Non-infinitive verb after modal verbs"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

Description: Non-infinitive verb after modal verbs
Message: The modal verb '\1' requires the verb's base form.
Category: Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • They will came home.
    Correction suggestion: come
  • I would definitely has that.
    Correction suggestion: have
  • A proposed northern bypass of Birmingham will designated as I-422.
    Correction suggestion: designate
  • He may conveys the message.
    Correction suggestion: convey
  • He will shows you the samples.
    Correction suggestion: show
  • This fits the current business pattern (Dennis Lee and Perry Frazier will validated this in model office).
    Correction suggestion: validate
  • Sponsored by CalEnergy, AB 45x will heard in the Assembly Appropriations Committee next.
    Correction suggestion: hear
  • Tell Neil Dad will sent a fishing report when he has one.
    Correction suggestion: send
  • ... and that the counterparty will chose to transact through us.
    Correction suggestion: choose
  • ... and we both agreed that the wire transfer will happed TOMORROW (Tuesday 11/27).
    Correction suggestion: hap
  • Jim Kelch will replaced Keels for the 2011 season.
    Correction suggestion: replace
  • The program will circulated shortly.
    Correction suggestion: circulate
  • Algeria will held presidential elections on July 4, 2019.
    Correction suggestion: hold
  • Sounds like the christening schedule will fits perfectly into that.
    Correction suggestion: fit
  • The deal with Oxy Vinyls (#276478) will covers the volume for all of October.
    Correction suggestion: cover
  • Pricing will based on Gas Daily.
    Correction suggestion: base
  • It is our understanding that this process will performed in Australia.
    Correction suggestion: perform
  • ... that the private interest of men, even of bad men, will controlled and directed as to serve and produce the public good.
    Correction suggestion: control
  • Stacey will continues to advocate this issue.
    Correction suggestion: continue
  • ... and bring the cost into a Level "B" will required a defined scope with Agave.
    Correction suggestion: require
  • Short name change will made on 02/02/01.
    Correction suggestion: make
  • I assume the same thing will happed for November production.
    Correction suggestion: hap
  • Once the maximum has been met, a subsidy of $5.00 will made per ride.
    Correction suggestion: make
  • However, the bigger question is whether Enron will allows us to file with FERC.
    Correction suggestion: allow
  • Of course, as we agreed at the hearing, service will made on the parties.
    Correction suggestion: make
  • All recoveries in bankruptcy will passed to the insurance underwriters if we decide to make the claim.
    Correction suggestion: pass
  • Just click then click on your favorite team's helmet and Campbell will donated a can of soup.
    Correction suggestion: donate
  • I would greatly appreciated your comments.
    Correction suggestion: appreciate
  • I can’t seen to ascend the Nobend Brothers to mythic.
    Correction suggestion: see
  • Mozilla should has a grammar checker.
    Correction suggestion: have
  • Mozilla should not really has a grammar checker.
    Correction suggestion: have
  • Mozilla must has a grammar checker.
    Correction suggestion: have
  • The decisions we can based on the information available are likely to be wrong because the information is not accurate.
    Correction suggestion: base
  • I will CC'd you.
    Correction suggestion: CC
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • They will come home.
  • Mozilla should have a grammar checker.
  • The must has an unusual colour today. Please check the filters.
  • Which can contains water?
  • May sometimes spends the time by herself.
  • When will versions of enterprise release be announced?
  • Will associated dialogs be displayed automatically when appropriate?
  • Would rebooting make any difference?
  • Wouldn't rebooting make any difference?
  • Nothing he did helped.
  • Latest News: Government May Sometimes Spends More Money Than It Has.
  • Games won't distract her nor will dancing.
  • The ability to model and modify systems at will affords science an ethical method of...
  • How can kids help?
  • How would suggesting people actually work?
  • Can rabbits swim?
  • Could frozen adjusters cause this?
  • Can hot tubs make you infertile?
  • I will fed ex them to you this evening.
  • Haven says it will withstand up to 50 kicks.
  • Would logs help?
  • Maybe he can drop some knowledge since he can fucking OHP this more than I can flat bench it.
  • If you can’t does that bug you.
  • Ok, I will thanks.
  • As individuals differ, so will results.
  • The questions about who the fat technicians really are must not let us become distracted from the...
  • I'll forward copies to everyone who is interested as soon as I get a copy.
  • We'll forward copies of above.
  • The Bible is clear that humans do not achieve greatness without having their sinful will broken.
  • I made sure that he had his sinful evil nasty will changed!
  • One's own will overrides any command.
  • Unfortunately, this will happened to be wrong, because the legal team was careless.
  • This will happens to be wrong.
  • We are making the most economical decisions we can based on the bids available.
  • If it must needs be so, do what you will.
  • Dickens's will stipulated that no memorial be erected in his honour.
  • How high can birds fly?
  • It was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen.
  • I wish you'd told me you were married.
  • Should Kids Wear A Scarf?
  • Optometrists can supply colored spectacle lenses or a single red-tint contact lens to wear on the non-dominant eye.
  • Marubeni Corporation will supply advanced construction machinery to OAO Stroytransgaz, Russian construction company that will use the equipment to complete a gas pipeline from Russia to Turkey.
  • "Can dogs talk?", Tom asked.
  • Turing disavowed any interest in terminology, saying that even "Can machines think?" is too loaded with spurious connotations to be meaningful.
  • I must needs wake you.
  • Must got cash as long as train smoke cos he's Junior's biggest customer.
  • -l told you May made me depressed.
  • President Bush continues to oppose full federalization of airport screeners and baggage checkers, calling into question whether a deal can struck on an airline security bill before the busy Thanksgiving travel season.
  • Note that I will be out of the office for two weeks beginning Monday and can reached through Chauncey.
  • I can reached anytime at one of the following numbers.
  • Please let me know your availability and the best time to reach you on Also please let me have the telephone number where you may reached and we will call you.
  • Since the Research Group will be gone on Jan. 31, 2002, I want to make sure that you know that the Research Group Laptop (asset tag # 990860) that was returned to me will managed by Kevin Moore as of today 1/24/02.
  • While the construction crew was operating several blocks from the grave site itself, state officials generally consider such areas to be surrounded by a "sensitive area'' of up to half a mile because bones and artifacts can moved by underground streams and shifting soil.
  • Even if he were to disclose everything he and his staff have been negotiating, it is likely that their actions and negotiations will challenged, creating an even further delay.
  • Lower Manhattan may not be able to win back all of the work force that was there before Sept. 11, however the vitality that the World Trade Center symbolized can brought back in new ways and not only in Lower Manhattan.
  • The attrition rate should calculated based on the number of existing clients at the beginning of the agreement without taking new clients into account.
  • The attrition rate should calculated based on the number of existing clients at the beginning of the agreement without taking new clients into account.
  • Their report in October stated that it was unlikely there would be any direct positive economic outcome, but that the project should still be considered for the simple reason that everyone else was going supersonic, and they were concerned they would locked out of future markets.
  • Confederate commanders would need it should troops pass that way in retreat.
  • How can printed texts and social tasks work?
  • Kindly inform me personally at the earliest possible time should cuts of any nature occur in the future on this contract.
  • Robinson said the emergency order allowed the ISO to secure refunds should overcharges for electricity be proven to federal officials.
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