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Rule "this vs thus"

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Description: this vs thus
Message: Did you mean this?
Category: Commonly Confused Words (ID: CONFUSED_WORDS)
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • For thus, we need to complete the list.
    Correction suggestion: this
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • Thus, a heretic bearing the name of Sason (=Joy) once remarked to him, "In the next world your people will have to draw water for me; for thus it is written in the Bible (Isaiah 12:3), 'With joy shall ye draw water.'"
  • Thus is this animal my favorite.
  • Thus is the elephant from the zoo my favorite.
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Check the following text against just this rule:

ID: THUS_THIS [4]
Version: 6.5-SNAPSHOT (2024-04-30 22:33:07 +0200)