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Rule "up date (update)"

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Description: up date (update)
Message: <pleasespellme/>This word is normally spelled as one. Did you mean <pleasespellme/>up\2?
Category: Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • Please up date your smartphone to the latest version.
    Correction suggestion: update
  • He keeps me up dated.
    Correction suggestion: updated
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • We ended up selling 131 boxes at the booth on Saturday.
  • I am setting up time for Rick to interview these candidates next Monday.
  • The thing that's up starts to ...
  • When is our check up time?
  • They stood up side by side to protest.
  • He really messed up time sheets.
  • Papilionid chrysalis are typically attached to a substrate by the cremaster and with head up held by a silk girdle.
  • Sami ended up dating Layla.
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Check the following text against just this rule:

ID: UP_COMPOUNDS [1]
Version: 6.5-SNAPSHOT (2024-03-28 22:33:07 +0100)