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Rule "Agreement error: past participle without 'have'"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

Description: Agreement error: past participle without 'have'
Message: A verb ('be' or 'have') is missing before the past participle.
Category: Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Link: https://languagetool.org/insights/post/verb-tenses/
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • When I seen your note ...
    Correction suggestion: have seen, saw
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • I was surprised by him.
  • Ma'am I got the wrong one.
  • Does it only take the smell to make you drunk?
  • Where've you been?
  • Have Tom and I done enough?
  • We had an excellent technology shop and while I was there I built the EDS later to be ETC trading floor infrastructure.
  • They don't honor you like that OU unless they done taken a real liking to you.
  • How you been?
  • Where you been when I needed you?
  • What you been up to?
ID: PRP_PAST_PART [7]
Version: 6.6-SNAPSHOT (2024-12-06 22:33:09 +0100)