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Some suggestions for checker rules #86

Closed craigp-atw closed 6 months ago

craigp-atw commented 6 months ago

From Richard:

[] Could the editor check to see if there are two conjunctions, and flag that as an error? Like "And then". [] If "Now" appears at the beginning of a sentence, could there be a warning that says that we don't have the discourse conjunction "now", only the adverb "now". [] Could the editor mark "only" as an error unless it precedes a noun phrase? We don't have "only" as an adverb. [] Could there be a warning for "come" that says that it should only be used for things that move, not for events? [] Thank you so much!

Also from Richard:

  1. Normally the attributive use of an adjective is preferred rather than the predicative use in a relative clause. In other words, it's preferred to write "a good X" rather than "an X [that is good]". Could you note nouns modified by relative clauses of the form "X [that be Y]", where "Y" is an adjective, and in that case put a warning that the attributive use is generally preferred?