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Rule "Pronoun + noun"

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Description: Pronoun + noun
Message: Possible error detected: Please verify that having a noun follow a pronoun is correct in this context.
Category: Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • I downtown went yesterday.
  • It alpha decays to the extremely long-lived (in practice, ...
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • Mr. Ness was formerly chief executive officer of R.V.I Insurance Group, a company owned by Quantum Industrial Fund.
  • Please give me a call if you wish to discuss this matter further, and I am instructed to request that you return the revised copy of the Raptor I Proposal Sheet to me and copy Mary Cook and Lisa Mellancamp thereon.
  • I went downtown yesterday.
  • I'm going to send it to you if needed.
  • Sarah was discerning enough to realize that her friends were trying to prank her.
  • More than half of US children diagnosed with ASD are prescribed psychoactive dr...
  • She's got a fair complexion while her brother is very dark.
  • Her garden is a work of art.
  • Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life.
  • This is for all you Star Wars lovers.
  • Part of what motivates me to cope with ME/CFS the best I can is to make things easier for the people I love.
  • We men are used to waiting for the women.
  • Isn't it something like that?
  • UAB Hospital is the only Level I trauma center in Alabama.
  • Her eyes were shining with joy.
  • They competed for it by giving speeches on why they were the bravest afte...
  • Are you in jest or in earnest?
  • ...antic interest was Ann Rutledge, whom he met when he first moved to New Salem; by 1835, they were in a relat...
  • He first articulated this in 1837, saying, "[The] Institut...
  • ...y 12, was never a national holiday, but it was at one time observed by as many as 30 states.
  • One kinship cue is facial resemblance.
  • You two are the nucleus of the team.
  • I sent to you other bank documents.
  • World War I veterans.
  • Napoleon promptly responded by ordering a counter-attack by the cuirassier brigades of Farine and Travers and Jaquinot's two Chevau-léger (lancer) regiments in the I Corps light cavalry division.
  • You students are supposed to be diligent.
  • Did any of you gentlemen wait on this man?
  • ...about the Polish actress Pola Negri, which became her first published work.
  • ...ld be Rand, possibly as a Cyrillic contraction of her birth surname, and she adopted the first name Ayn, eith...
  • ...d struggled in Hollywood and took odd jobs to pay her basic living expenses.
  • Both she and her husband worked full-time in volunteer positions for the 1...
  • ...when the book was done, she was so exhausted that her doctor ordered two weeks' rest.
  • Her testimony described the disparity between her personal expe...
  • Her testimony described the disparity between her personal experiences in the Soviet Union and the portrayal...
  • ...d music to sexuality and facial hair, and some of her followers mimicked her preferences, wearing clothes to matc...
  • ...d and promoted her Objectivist philosophy through her nonfiction works and by giving talks to students at institut...
  • ... We the Living (which Rand later revised), and in her overall writing style.
  • During Rand's lifetime, her work evoked both extreme praise and condemnation.
  • ...Rand's nonfiction received far fewer reviews than her novels had.
  • Rand and her works have been referred to in a variety of media: on t...
  • During Rand's lifetime her work received little attention from academic scholars....
  • ...consideration of Rand as a literary figure during her life was even more limited.
  • Since Rand's death, interest in her work has gradually increased.
  • In 1794, US Congress voted for funds appropriation for warship constru...
  • In March of this year the US government authorized war against the Barbary States, giving...
  • It helps us in times of difficulty.
  • He OD'd on cocaine.
  • I rec'd notice and will be attending meeting as will David Portz with Enron.
  • ...ight (Berber) as a national language and teaching it in schools.
  • Although her house is nearby, I seldom see her.
  • Galt marks the pinnacle of everything Dagny seeks in the world and is the kind of man alluded...
  • Her eyes become round in surprise.
  • As her motives become more clear, Lillian is found to share the ...
  • Her actions are explained as the desire to destroy achievemen...
  • Her heart was throbbing with excitement.
  • With her heart pounding, she opened the door.
  • Her husband quit shortly after Galt did and joined the strike...
  • Her lead allows Dagny to find Hugh Akston.
  • ...he customs of peoples considered "different" from themselves in terms of geography.
  • There is only one day left, whether we like it or not.
  • ...uantitative substance of all bodies first reveals itself in differentiated form."
  • The chairman would only make her comments off the record.
  • Her face was animated by joy.
  • Her tears formed the river Achelous.
  • Apollo complained to Maia that her son had stolen his cattle, but Hermes had already rep...
  • The Greek sculptors tried to clarify it by looking for mathematical proportions, just as the...
  • ...d Federer, who was seeking his second consecutive US Open title and his sixth Grand Slam title in two years...
  • The school stands about one mile off.
  • Generally speaking, we Japanese are a little too timid in speaking foreign langua...
  • ... absent for long periods, and is forgiven because her excuses are so convincing and she "purred so affectionate...
  • Her absence went unnoticed until the end of the meeting.
  • We Japanese live on rice.
  • We Japanese come of age at twenty.
  • We students are now at our best.
  • ...general change from small patchworks of fields to one large open field divided into strips owned by various m...
  • As of 2000 the top six US supermarket groups had 50% of sales compared to 32% in 1992.
  • We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
  • When prices decline, the heavily subsidized US farmer is not forced to reduce his output, making it dif...
  • ...and it's on about two-thirds of an acre, and when we first bought it I spent several hours every week gettin...
  • Her eyes have sunk through overwork.
  • Her cheeks were tinged with red by the warmth of fire.
  • She scraped her shoes clean before she entered the house.
  • ...spring-tydes or great rigs of the sea, they fetch it in sacks on horse backes, and carie the same three, ...
  • One technique used in factorial designs is to minimize replicat...
  • ... typically compare two sets of groups means where one set has two or more groups (e.g., compare average gro...
  • Why did her father go to Japan?
  • Please give me something hot to drink.
  • Lend me something interesting to read.
  • In 2009, on her album Running for the Drum, Buffy Sainte-Marie released...
  • Her version contained some new lyrics, as well as a small mod...
  • ...e Saturn V launch vehicle using an unmanned Block I production model of the Apollo Command and Service Module in...
  • He amazed everyone by passing his driving test.
  • ...e parachutes dragged the spacecraft over and left it upside down, in what was termed Stable 2 position.
  • ...sh citizens their natural rights and dehumanizing them by viewing them as a mere commodity.
  • Two letters representing one sound is widely used in Hungarian as well (where, for i...
  • Off hand, I'd say her problem is shyness.
  • Miss Ito made her students work hard.
  • Let us students contribute to the welfare of the victims of the e...
  • ...hauer's court testimony, she deliberately annoyed him by raising her voice while standing right outside hi...
  • Her companion testified that she saw Marquet prostrate outside ...
  • When she died, he wrote on a copy of her death certificate, Obit anus, abit onus ("The old woman...
  • ...e so by giving them the opportunity of slandering me by saying that I defend and commend pederasty."
  • Her name wasn't on the list.
  • ...to a recent Human Rights Watch report, 32 billion US dollars disappeared from government accounts from 2007 to...
  • Finally, Susan cuts her mother short, promises to write, and hangs up.
  • ...e great trade routes and the agreements that made them possible were the driving force for activities between the...
  • If her temperature goes up, send for the doctor.
  • ...n't made waves about it, she never would have got her money back.
  • Her systems were made to be similar to a human's.
  • Her fate is unknown, but the contents of a letter Einstein...
  • During one reception given to him, the building was "stormed by throng...
  • ...ave to go to Kyoto once more, I will have visited it four times this year.
  • Mary took her beauty sleep before the big party.
  • Mary stood with her hand shading her eyes.
  • Mary put her piano up for sale.
  • Mary and her sister took turns at looking after their sick mother.
  • When Mary was a child, her family was dirt poor.
  • The US government identified Osama bin Laden, Khalid Sheikh Mohamme...
  • Max explained to Julie why he could not go to her farewell party.
  • ... which can vary between and 530 km2, out of which one third belongs to Albania and rest to Montenegro.
  • ...nicity other than what was written down on his or her birth certificate.
  • ...Approximately 681,000 people with over 100,000 of them women went to the front, while the total population of ...
  • ...ons with the European Union and could potentially one day apply for membership.
  • Paul wasn't with Mary when her purse was stolen.
  • She got into hot water when her boyfriend called her at work.
  • Helen always keeps her room clean.
  • ...esting requirements vary, so a particular rank in one organization is not comparable or interchangeable with the ran...
  • The very thought of snakes makes her turn pale.
  • Betty sat in the chair with her legs crossed.
  • Beth protested, but her mother reminded her that she was incredibly fat.
  • Mrs. Baker had her purse stolen.
  • ...female nude, hooded detainee strapped to a chair, her legs open to reveal her sexual organs, surrounded by t...
  • French is her mother tongue.
  • While swimming in the pool, she lost her locker key.
  • What happens when one number is zero, both numbers are zero?
  • On getting off the bus, she heard her name called.
  • ...summation of her marriage to Philip, dreamed that her womb was struck by a thunder bolt, causing a flame tha...
  • ...ageira, which Philip had razed, and to repopulate it by buying and freeing the ex-citizens who were slave...
  • ...gyius, and had the Corinthians bring Thessalus to him in chains.
  • ...eities and believed that Alexander meant to deify himself by requiring it.
  • The one exception was a call to arms by Spartan king Agis III in 33...
  • ...primary reason behind this is Bangladeshi IT companies are providing high quality services at a...
  • The essential feature of bipolar I disorder is a clinical course characterized by the ...
  • I so loved this spot, that when I sold the house, I kept the island.
  • It so happened that they were not there.
  • This group worked against the Nazis, and in it Camus assumed the nom de guerre Beauchard.
  • The position carried with it extraordinary powers over the Berlin city government and made S...
  • Who Shall I Say is Calling & Other Stories S. Deziemianowicz, ed....
  • At the Tier I Family Circle Cup, Kournikova reached her second WTA Tou...
  • He was calling you several times today.
  • I wanted to offer you white airbrushes
  • I will tell him to send you coupon codes.
  • I transferred you Admin rights.
  • You could do it if needed.
  • Is it anything like mine.
  • Is it something like meat?
  • I could hire you if needed.
  • Hugo Chávez stated that "[t]he world is for all of us...
  • Is it worth adding the extra money?
  • And name it something like ...
  • I can offer you Lifetime Warranty.
  • As I Lay Dying.
  • Are we army officers?
  • You Russians are really wonderful people.
  • I rec'd notice and will be attending meeting
  • As of 2013, at least 61 Apple I computers are documented to exist (plus an indefinite number of possible unreported cases).
  • Schedule I substances are those that have the following findings:
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ID: PRONOUN_NOUN [1]
Version: 6.6-SNAPSHOT (2024-10-21 11:28:37 +0200)