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Rule "Repeated verb forms"

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Description: Repeated verb forms
Message: You've repeated a verb. Did you mean to only write one of them?
Category: Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • Tom has decided he's not going go to Boston next summer.
    Correction suggestion: going, go
  • Sally, I want wanted to congratulate you on your promotion to Managing Director.
    Correction suggestion: want, wanted
Correct sentences
for comparison:
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  • He is locking locks.
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  • Take Took Taken!
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  • Don Alexander 29.
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  • No one I know knows how to do that.
  • Don Facundo began attempting to "tame" rum by isolating a proprietary strain of yeast still used in Bacardi production today.
  • Therefore, steel parts heat-treated to tensile strength above 1300 MPa (200 ksi) should be coated by an alternative method (such as special low-embrittlement cadmium electroplating processes or physical vapor deposition).
  • I didn't name names.
  • We need to connect connected devices.
  • Another hotel, the smallest and no doubt at one time the quaintest, has slatted wooden shutters covering the windows and doors leading out to tiny porches.
  • It was a cold evening even though it was summertime.
  • Tom babysat John and Mary's children yesterday evening.
  • I dunno if it's a bug or what, but this software doesn't work right.
  • Artillery shells and other munitions, which are color-coded according to their pyrotechnic contents They were passionately in love.
  • Well better go.
  • To made make your text better, try this:
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ID: REPEATED_VERBS [1]
Version: 6.4-SNAPSHOT (2024-03-27 22:33:08 +0100)