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Rule "Are not (formal) → Aren't"

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Description:	Are not (formal) → Aren't
Message:	Questions beginning with '\2 \3' can sound very formal.
Category:	Style (ID: STYLE)
Incorrect sentences that this rule can detect:	Are not you the cause of this for me? Correction suggestion: Aren't Are not you ashamed of yourself? Correction suggestion: Aren't Is not this the word that we spoke to thee in Egypt, saying: Depart from us, that we may serve the Egyptians? for it was much better to serve them, than to die in the wilderness. Correction suggestion: Isn't Is not philosophy, after all, pretending to ignore what is known, and to know what is not known? Correction suggestion: Isn't Is not a helping life ten times magnified? Correction suggestion: Isn't Is not that the reason why you spent so much time in Rome last year? Correction suggestion: Isn't Would not you reckon the alchymist for a god, that could add ten years to the sum of your life, and call back advanced age to the vigour of youth? Correction suggestion: Wouldn't Would not something similar be possible on Steam? Correction suggestion: Wouldn't Do not you get annoyed? Correction suggestion: Don't Should not it be a string of numbers? Correction suggestion: Shouldn't Will not the price to be paid for the things to be lost, be too high? Correction suggestion: Won't
Correct sentences for comparison:	Do not come back, OK? Do not simply come back, OK? Having not read it, you are saying it was a provocateur, right? Is not helping someone a crime? Is not a coincidence that all the stores closed earlier today. Has not received regulatory approval Have not heard from him. Are Not Yet Available for Greenville, KY. Am not I lucky? Can not you get it? Will not be in this morning as I am having eye surgery (lasik) later today.
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ID:	SENT_START_ARE_NOT_ARENT_FORMAL [1]
Version:	6.5-SNAPSHOT (2024-04-26 22:33:08 +0200)