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Rule "Agreement: 'one' + plural word"

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Description: Agreement: 'one' + plural word
Message: Please verify that the plural noun "\3" is in agreement with the quantifier "\2". Did you mean to use the singular form?
Category: Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • I drew one hexagons on my paper.
    Correction suggestion: one hexagon, a hexagon, hexagons
  • I worked for one hours.
    Correction suggestion: one hour, an hour, hours
  • I'll give it a try for 1 months after my holidays.
    Correction suggestion: 1 month, a month, months
  • I have 1 days left.
    Correction suggestion: 1 day, a day, days
  • My mother owns 1 cars.
    Correction suggestion: 1 car, a car, cars
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • The paper is ruined when one pencils in their name.
  • It is a criteria list that we prepared last night.
  • He was employed for a time by a Mrs. Reed.
  • There was a children's party at the Joneses yesterday.
  • A men's retailer opened in Florida.
  • I have one hundred and one dollars.
  • I have fifty-one dollars.
  • I throw the balls one by one.
  • Formula One teams are the best.
  • He was the first person in a half-century to succeed.
  • There was time for one innings more.
  • All one needs.
  • The positions of these 1 bits in such a number is a specific k-combination of the set {1,...,n}.
  • As all pool 1 questions exhausted, DPA...
  • ...of the session 1 classes!
  • My term 1 results:
  • Tom and Mary are one ones who broke the window yesterday.
  • In either case, this node will have zero or one children.
  • (The "Device - Bio/Chemical" spectrum is an imperfect dichotomy, but one regulators often use, at least as a starting point.)
  • LAU 1 divisions match the counties and the city of Zagreb in effect making those the same as NUTS 3 units, while LAU 2 subdivisions correspond to the cities and municipalities of Croatia.
  • 5.1 systems
  • Unless someone thinks the 4/1 3/1 works better.
  • Nat.#1 Women
  • 20 sets 13 x 4, 6 x 3, 1 x 1 Rows 71
  • Synthetic astaxanthin contains a mixture of all three stereoisomers, in approximately 1:2:1 proportions.
  • I use this to find pages with slow queries and N+1 issues.
  • Monoprice 4 in 1 Sensors
  • OPTION 1: PURPOSE BUILT ALL IN ONE UNITS LIKE SKYBELL.
  • The most childhood diseases in one year," or "Record snow in one months time.
  • Women's Basketball The four schools have won one women's national championship (UNC).
  • One ratings company, Moody's Investors Service, has lowered Enron's rating to one level above junk, putting the company at risk for being unable to conduct its wholesale energy trading business.
  • I had one years ago.
  • As the total amount is identified as 100, the compositional vector of D components can be defined using only D − 1 components, assuming that the remaining component is the percentage needed for the whole vector to add to 100.
  • Thousands of protesters took to the streets in a series of July 1 marches.
  • * Build New Relic One Applications
  • * Tier 1 feels unrewarding
  • Yet that's analogous to the one businesses are struggling with on a massive scale.
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ID: ONE_PLURAL [1]
Version: 6.5-SNAPSHOT (2024-04-23 22:33:07 +0200)