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Rule "Three members of our team needs (need) LanguageTool"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

Description: Three members of our team needs (need) LanguageTool
Message: Possible subject-verb agreement error.
Category: Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • Customer reports of apparently aberrant behavior is really valuable to us.
    Correction suggestion: are, were
  • The costs of the former journey is around $20 for foreigners while round trip from Alausí is $15.
    Correction suggestion: are, were
  • The mechanistic studies of lithium-halogen exchange is also complicated by the formation of aggregates of organolithium species.
    Correction suggestion: are, were
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • The minimum criteria of the weather forecast dataset is as follows:
  • Two thirds of the work is finished.
  • Legislation embodying aspects of the deal is pending in Sacramento.
  • The horse of a hurried man is often sick, but that of a lazy man often stumbles.
  • One ton of dry wood is equivalent to 1.8 tons of carbon dioxide.
  • The sole of the boot is extended forward slightly at the toe.
  • The black sheep of the family is the ne'er-do-well.
  • The Fourier series of a periodic function is mathematically expressed as:
  • On RISC systems, 110 megabytes of hard drive space is needed.
  • A few hours of down time is nothing in order to have working Guild chat.
  • Essentially, 60 million repetitions of an empty method is the worst case scenario for the percentage of time added.
  • Said another way: The contents of the pointer-register is the address of the "target" register to be used by the instruction.
ID: NNS_OF_SINGULAR_AGREEMENT [2]
Version: 6.6-SNAPSHOT (2024-11-21 22:33:10 +0100)