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Rule "Agreement: 'I is / you is / ... '"

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Description:	Agreement: 'I is / you is / ... '
Message:	Did you mean was?
Category:	Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Link:	https://languagetool.org/insights/post/forms-of-to-be/#forms-of-the-verb-%E2%80%9Cto-be%E2%80%9D
Incorrect sentences that this rule can detect:	I were at the restaurant. Correction suggestion: was
Correct sentences for comparison:	I was at the restaurant. I ate at the restaurant. I am at the restaurant. If I were a girl. If only I were happy. I wish I were a millionaire. I felt as though I were plunging into something new and quite abnormal. … but if, by any evil chance, I were not, then … Neither you nor I were mistaken.
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Check the following text against just this rule:
ID:	PERS_PRONOUN_AGREEMENT [5]
Version:	6.5-SNAPSHOT (2024-04-19 22:33:07 +0200)

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