Detecting wrong pronoun use

[nitinl]

Description

Flag incorrect pronoun usage, for example:

• I listened to she carefully.
• He showed myself some affordable options.

[hippietrail]

I have a Linter underway for the first bullet point. I was about to push the PR when I discovered a new class of false positives that are pretty tricky to detect: "As the unconscious man came to she carefully crept away."

[laundmo]

As the unconscious man came to she carefully crept away.

Shouldn't there be a comma in there? ... came to, she carefully ...

[hippietrail]

As the unconscious man came to she carefully crept away.

Shouldn't there be a comma in there? ... came to, she carefully ...

Yes. That's the problem with made-up sentences. Let me dig out a couple of real examples from the snapshots. These are all from either Alice in Wonderland or The Great Gatsby:

• And in she went.
• And as I walked on I was lonely no longer.
• When we came in she held us silent for a moment with a lifted hand.
• As he left the room again she got up and went over to Gatsby and pulled his face.

[hippietrail]

See PR #1544 with a branch attempting to solve this issue.
Others are welcome to work on this to improve it if they can see ways forward.

[jvoisin]

This would catch I vs. me issues, and thus would provide a tremendous service to humanity as a whole.