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American English Grammar and Typo Rules for LanguageTool
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<!DOCTYPE rules [
<!ENTITY weekdays "Monday|Tuesday|Wednesday|Thursday|Friday|Saturday|Sunday">
<!ENTITY abbrevWeekdays "Mon|Mo|Tue|Tu|Wed|We|Thu|Th|Fri|Fr|Sat|Sa|Sun|Su">
<!ENTITY months "January|February|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December">
<!ENTITY abbrevMonths "Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Sept|Oct|Nov|Dec">
]>
<rules lang="en-US" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../../../../../../../../../../languagetool-core/src/main/resources/org/languagetool/rules/rules.xsd"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
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<category id="US_SPECIFIC_TYPOS" name="Possible Typo" type="misspelling">
<rule id="ANY_MORE" name="any more (anymore)">
<pattern>
<marker>
<token>any</token>
<token>more</token>
</marker>
<token><exception regexp="yes">of|than</exception><exception postag="NN.*" postag_regexp="yes"/></token>
</pattern>
<message>Did you mean <suggestion>\1\2</suggestion>?</message>
<url>http://www.whichenglish.com/Better-English-Grammar/Online-Usage-Letter-A.html</url>
<short>Possible typo</short>
<example correction="anymore">I couldn't find my way around in it <marker>any more</marker>.</example>
</rule>
</category>
<category id="AMERICAN_ENGLISH_STYLE" name="American English Style" type="style">
<rule id="MISSING_COMMA_AFTER_YEAR" name="Potentially missing comma after year">
<pattern>
<token regexp="yes">&months;</token>
<token regexp="yes">[0123]?[0-9]</token>
<token min="0">,</token>
<marker>
<token regexp="yes">[0-9]{4}</token>
</marker>
<token regexp="yes">[a-z]+</token>
</pattern>
<message>Some style guides suggest that commas should set off the year in a month-day-year date: <suggestion>\4,</suggestion>.</message>
<url>http://www.thepunctuationguide.com/comma.html#dates</url>
<short>Potentially missing comma</short>
<example correction="2011,">The meeting scheduled for July 10, <marker>2011</marker> was canceled.</example>
<example>My birthday is October 8, <marker>1983,</marker> but I usually do not celebrate.</example>
</rule>
</category>
<category id="BRITISH_ENGLISH" name="British English phrases" type="locale-violation">
<rule id="GROUND_FIRST_FLOOR" name="ground floor/first floor">
<pattern>
<marker>
<token>ground</token>
</marker>
<token regexp="yes">floors?</token>
</pattern>
<message>This word is British English. Did you mean <suggestion>first</suggestion>?</message>
<url>http://www.learnenglish.de/mistakes/USvsBrEnglish.html</url>
<example correction="first">The room is on the <marker>ground</marker> floor.</example>
<example correction="first">Historic Buildings: insulating solid <marker>ground</marker> floors.</example>
<example>The room is on the <marker>first</marker> floor.</example>
</rule>
<rule id="MASTERS_DISSERTATION_THESIS" name="master's dissertation (thesis)">
<pattern>
<token>master</token>
<token spacebefore="no" regexp="yes">['’]</token>
<token>s</token>
<token inflected="yes">dissertation</token>
</pattern>
<message>In the US, the word '\4' is usually for doctoral degrees. Did you mean <suggestion>\1\2\3 <match no="4" postag="(NN.*)" postag_replace="$1">thesis</match></suggestion>?</message>
<url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesis#United_States</url>
<short>BrE/AmE: dissertation/thesis</short>
<example correction="master's thesis">Her <marker>master's dissertation</marker> is excellent.</example>
<example correction="Master’s theses"><marker>Master’s dissertations</marker> are not easy to write.</example>
<example correction="master's thesis">Example sentence with no full stop: <marker>master's dissertation</marker></example>
</rule>
</category>
</rules>