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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)
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • They works here.
    Correction suggestion: work
  • They cannot works here.
    Correction suggestion: work
  • They always works here.
    Correction suggestion: work
  • They all means the same.
    Correction suggestion: mean
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • We make a lot of mistakes.
  • Are they friends?
  • All we need is love.
  • Phase I corresponds to the small-deformation regime.
  • They is happy. [Found by PERS_PRONOUN_AGREEMENT_SENT_START]
  • We parents sometimes become blind in loving our children too...
  • Yes, sometimes we frogs have sticky feet.
  • The use of a singular they sparks a lot of debate.
  • The use of singular they has been around for a long time.
  • We bears would call each other and joke about it.
  • Aren't we friends?
ID: NON3PRS_VERB [3]
Version: 6.6-SNAPSHOT (2024-11-25 22:33:08 +0100)