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Rule "Agreement error: Third-person verb with a non-third-person pronoun"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

Description:	Agreement error: Third-person verb with a non-third-person pronoun
Message:	The pronoun '\1' must be used with a non-third-person form of a verb.
Category:	Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Link:	https://languagetool.org/insights/post/grammar-subject-verb-agreement/#1-singular-subjects-must-go-with-singular-verbs-and-plural-subjects-with-plural-verbs
Incorrect sentences that this rule can detect:	I works here. Correction suggestion: work I cannot works here. Correction suggestion: work I just looks bad. Correction suggestion: look I rarely has a bad day. Correction suggestion: have
Correct sentences for comparison:	I work here. We make a lot of mistakes. Phase I corresponds to the small-deformation regime. Am I nuts? ... or am I nuts? Step i corresponds to the ... ... and if phase I corresponds to the ... I doesn't sure about this. ...this variance estimate correctly, but Algorithm I returns 29.333333333333332 instead of 30. Article I states that Trump had conditioned two official acts on the public announcements that he had requested. dotting the I's and crossing the T's the lawyers kept arguing over which I's should be dotted
ID:	NON3PRS_VERB [2]
Version:	6.6-SNAPSHOT (2024-11-25 22:33:08 +0100)

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