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

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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:
  • You doesn't work hard enough.
    Correction suggestion: don't
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • You can't do that because you ain't me.
  • I just noticed that the version I sent to you doesn't contain the replace.txt yet for English.
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Check the following text against just this rule:

ID: NON3PRS_VERB [5]
Version: 6.5-SNAPSHOT (2024-04-19 22:33:07 +0200)