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Rule "The principle (principal) will hold an assembly tomorrow"

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Description:	The principle (principal) will hold an assembly tomorrow
	By default, this rule is not active in LanguageTool
Message:	Did you mean to use "principal" here? "Principle" is a guiding rule/belief, and "principal" is an adjective meaning "main or most significant".
Category:	Commonly Confused Words (ID: CONFUSED_WORDS)
Link:	https://languagetool.org/insights/post/spelling-principal-vs-principle/
Incorrect sentences that this rule can detect:	The constant arguing was the principle reason for our departure. Correction suggestion: principal Carelessness is his principle feature. Correction suggestion: principal That is the principle problem next to education. Correction suggestion: principal What is the principle reason for going to school? Correction suggestion: principal It's only the planet's principle democracy at stake. Correction suggestion: principal
Correct sentences for comparison:	Mika expressed our in principle interest in sponsoring a Japanese cultural event in Houston. Principle 4: Independent assessment of impacts In the case of two electrons occupying the same orbital, the Pauli principle demands that they have opposite spin. As became even clearer later, the differences were over a series of matters of principle which, at that time, the Chinese seemed to maintain correct stands. The current slogan of the party is "The Party of Principle". In this work, Doppler postulated his principle (later coined the Doppler effect) that the observed frequency of a wave depends on the relative speed of the source and the observer, and he tried to use this concept for explaining the colour of binary stars. Some churches use only a cappella music, either on principle (for example, many Churches of Christ object to the use of instruments in worship) or by tradition (as in Orthodoxy). ...Q3 Leadership Principle Award for Comm... ...of research.” Principle B: Fidelity an... “Seperation of Concerns” is the principle I'm referring to here. Based on our business principle discussion, Peggy and I are comfortable that this round of edits represents our mutual business intent.
ID:	PRINCIPA_PRINCIPL [1]
Version:	6.6-SNAPSHOT (2024-11-24 22:33:09 +0100)