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  2. QTQAINFRA-935

Sanity bot should catch ungrammatical "allow to" phrases

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      The following construction is frequently used in commit messages:

      Allow to <infinitive verb> ...

      This is ungrammatical, as supported by http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/60271/grammatical-complements-for-allow

      "Allow to" should only be used with a direct object, like:

      Allow <object> to <infinitive verb>

      or a gerund phrase such as

      Allow <verbing> ...

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            andrew.knight Andrew Knight
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