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

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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?
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Check the following text against just this rule:
ID:	PRP_PAST_PART [7]
Version:	6.6-SNAPSHOT (2024-10-17 22:33:07 +0200)

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