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Rule "Number starting a sentence"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

Description: Number starting a sentence
By default, this rule is not active in LanguageTool
Message: Avoid numbers at the start of the sentence. Consider spelling out numbers using words or rephrasing the sentence.
Category: Style (ID: STYLE)
Link: https://languagetool.org/insights/post/style-writing-numbers/
Tags: [picky]
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • 12 soldiers were killed!
    Correction suggestion: Twelve
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • 12 soldiers were killed
  • Twelve soldiers were killed!
  • Thousand times? I have said it more than 1000 times!
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.- Introduction
  • 1.-- Introduction
  • 1.2. Introduction
  • 1.3.— Introduction
  • 50-30
  • 25/12/2017
  • 25.12.2017. At 12h00
  • 1994 was the year
  • 2,000 new animals
  • 2,000 animals were discovered last year.
  • 1.) First item
  • 12 soldiers were killed
  • 286 – Emperor Diocletian elevates his general Maximia...
  • 1 First item:
  • 1 makes it clear that she is married, and the introduction suggests her husband refused to be included in the published diaries.
  • 1 High-level description:
  • 1 Posthumously retired.
  • 1 Nephi through Omni are written in first-person narrative, as are Mormon and Moroni.
  • 10 take away 2 is 8.
ID: SENT_START_NUM [1]
Version: 6.8-SNAPSHOT (2025-10-25 22:33:08 +0200)