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Rule "'The' or 'a' before a punctuation"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

Description:	'The' or 'a' before a punctuation
Message:	Articles like '\2' are rarely followed by punctuation. A word may be missing after '\2', or the punctuation mark may not be necessary.
Category:	Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Incorrect sentences that this rule can detect:	Another example of chimpanzee to human aggression occurred February 2009 in Stamford, Connecticut, when a , 14-year-old pet chimp named Travis attacked his owner's friend. Correction suggestion: a On 4 May 1955, a survey team arrived at Groom Lake and laid out a , north-south runway on the southwest corner of the lakebed. Correction suggestion: a I am going to an, then I see you. Correction suggestion: an I am going to the; that's right. Correction suggestion: the
Correct sentences for comparison:	I am going to the store. I got a .2TB hard drive. I met Robert (a.k.a. Bob) at the store. a. The first item in the list. I am in Concourse A. I read the Qur'an. He was taken to Chang’an. I got up at 3 a.m. Here a, b and c are lattice constants. Thus, the alternance of -o/-a, has been replaced by ø/-a. It corresponds to English adjectives in -ic, -al, -an, -y, -ist, etc. ... DP Updates? N/a, remove image ...f temperature (a, c) and salinit.. ...g coefficient, a, is greater than... I'm not seeing the, the reasoning behind it. Let the, let the tool o... ...question, drop the, drop the question ... determiner the, this, that, wh... ...about articles—a, an, and the. ...adjectives: a, an, and the. ...eting back may the, what was that... ... 2023 event as a, “week of titan... ... be paragraphs a, c, b? And then... ... at the point a,0. ... at the point (a,0) ... guess goes to the, you know, the ... ... is, you know, the, the, the class... ... guidance that the, the riff, you ... ...have to go to the, umm bye, ”Alice... Given a subset U of An, can one recover the set of polynomials which generate it? 93 – Yuan An, Chinese scholar
ID:	THE_PUNCT [1]
Version:	6.8-SNAPSHOT (2025-11-02 22:33:08 +0100)