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

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

Description: The principle (principal) will hold an assembly tomorrow
Message: Did you mean to use "principal" here? A principle is a guiding rule/belief, and a principal is a school administrator.
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 principle will hold an assembly tomorrow.
    Correction suggestion: principal
  • The parents love the principle of the school because he is friendly and helpful.
    Correction suggestion: principal
  • Before she became the principle, she was a teacher for 25 years.
    Correction suggestion: principal
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • Even when a student is lucky enough to have a teacher that teaches valid economic principles, that student is likely being taught an interpretation of history that contradicts those principles.
  • They also offer a framework for designing activities that will promote learning; when used systematically, Stephen Kosslyn (2017) notes these principles enable students to “learn effectively—sometimes without even trying to learn.”
  • The principle underlying the early education system was that children should receive different types of education in accordance with their social class and therefore the position they were expected to occupy in society.
  • In 2003, Ardant received the Stanislavsky Award at the 25th Moscow International Film Festival (for the outstanding achievement in the career of acting and devotion to the principles of Stanislavsky's school).
  • Mannerist artists, who consciously rebelled against the principles of High Renaissance, tend to represent elongated figures in illogical spaces.
  • The Cheng brothers, Cheng Yi and Cheng Hao, are considered the founders of the two main schools of thought of Neo-Confucianism: the School of Principle the first, the School of Mind the latter.
  • Families want to educate their children and can, in principle, defray the costs with the greater incomes that education generates.
  • The principles of assembly are these:
ID: PRINCIPA_PRINCIPL [2]
Version: 6.6-SNAPSHOT (2024-12-02 22:33:09 +0100)