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Rule "Sentence ending with 'the' or 'a'"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

Description:	Sentence ending with 'the' or 'a'
Message:	A word may be missing after '\2'.
Category:	Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Incorrect sentences that this rule can detect:	I am going to an. I am going to 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. ... root a and therefore p(x) is a multiple of x − a. Thus, the alternance of -o/-a, has been replaced by ø/-a. Let f be a real valued function defined in an open neighborhood of a real number a. The argument proceeds as follows: if a number is computable in the Turing sense, then it is also computable in the sense: if , then the first n digits of the decimal expansion for a provide an approximation of a. Since D(f) is a function, it can be evaluated at a point a. f cannot have a derivative at a. If h is a number close to zero, then a + h is a number close to a.
ID:	THE_SENT_END [1]
Version:	6.8-SNAPSHOT (2025-10-27 22:33:07 +0100)