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Rule "missing verb after 'this'"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

Description: missing verb after 'this'
Message: A verb may be missing.
Category: Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • This the best.
    Correction suggestion: This is
  • This a new test.
    Correction suggestion: This is
  • I would like to know if this a bug?
    Correction suggestion: this is
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • This no doubt will improve our credit rating, save us cash on interest payment, and give us room to borrow.
  • This A section featured duple meter, singsong rhythms, and diatonic melodies with the sounds of oboe, English horn, and taxi horns.
  • By his first wife the peasant had a daughter called Elsa, a good quiet girl, who only wanted to live in peace, but this her stepmother would not allow.
ID: THIS_MISSING_VERB [1]
Version: 6.6-SNAPSHOT (2024-11-21 22:33:10 +0100)