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Rule "past vs paste"

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Description:	past vs paste
Message:	Did you mean the verb paste ("copy & paste")?
Category:	Commonly Confused Words (ID: CONFUSED_WORDS)
Incorrect sentences that this rule can detect:	I will past it into the text field. Correction suggestion: paste I can past it into the email. Correction suggestion: paste
Correct sentences for comparison:	Too bad she brushed past it in the article itself. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible
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Check the following text against just this rule:
ID:	PAST_PASTE [3]
Version:	6.5-SNAPSHOT (2024-04-28 22:33:06 +0200)

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