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Rule "tat (that)"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

Description: tat (that)
Message: In British English, the noun '\1' means tasteless or shoddy items. Did you mean <suggestion>that</suggestion>?
Category: Commonly Confused Words (ID: CONFUSED_WORDS)
Link: https://www.lexico.com/definition/tat
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • I think tat is correct.
    Correction suggestion: that
  • Tat is not correct.
    Correction suggestion: That
  • Tat, spoken in a hurry, sounds weird.
    Correction suggestion: That
  • ... misunderstand because tat, spoken in a hurry, sounds like...
    Correction suggestion: that
  • Although I think tat that is sometimes a...
    Correction suggestion: that
  • The manager thinks that tat must be decided later.
    Correction suggestion: that
  • The mechanism involved in tat activation is not known.
    Correction suggestion: that
  • 3. `` tat loads a js script that waits for a button to appear...
    Correction suggestion: that
  • ... it damages your camshafts (been there, seen tat) and can lead to catastrophic damage.
    Correction suggestion: that
  • I told her tat she must not do it.
    Correction suggestion: that
  • Unfortunately, tat gene is defective.
    Correction suggestion: that
  • Biology courses teach us tat proteins are essential for the organism.
    Correction suggestion: that
  • Although I think that tat can be used effectively in some furnishing contexts...
    Correction suggestion: that
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • I think that is correct.
  • Finally, she got rid of that old tat.
  • She can also tat and crochet lace.
  • The general mechanism involved in Tat activation of RNA Polymerase II (RNAP II) elongation... [www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5700838/]
  • nhac.tat.nguyen:
  • @shao.tat, use the REST API GET /wiki/rest/api/user/current.
  • Lamma Island(Sok Kwu Wan and Mo Tat) to Aberdeen HKR International Limited:
  • ... of the Chandogya Upanishad, whose Mahāvākya, Tat Tvam Asi, is mentioned throughout...
  • ... Lezgian, Rutul, Talysh, Tat, Tsakhur, and Udi are all spoken by small minorities.
  • The main contractor was a joint venture, comprising the contracting firms Sanfield and Tat Lee, called Manloze Ltd.
  • When Baku was occupied by the Russian troops during the war of 1804–13, nearly the entire population of some 8,000 people was ethnic Tat.
  • The TAT gene provides instructions for making a liver enzyme called tyrosine aminotransferase (https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/gene/TAT]).
  • The two tat proteins (p16 and p14) are transcriptional transactivators for the...
  • I crochet and tat left-handed, but I knit right-handed because...
  • The six remaining genes, tat, rev, nef, vif, vpr, and vpu (or vpx in the case of HIV-2), are regulatory genes...
  • Tat, spoken in parts of Azerbaijan, Russia, and Transcaucasia...
  • It's floor to ceiling tat; let's get out of this shop.
ID: TAT [1]
Version: 6.6-SNAPSHOT (2024-11-22 22:33:09 +0100)