Repeated sentence opening
repeated-sentence-headon by defaultJapanese / English
Several sentences in a row that open with the same words
Example
Flagged
The tool is free. The tool is ready without an account. The tool is fine on phones too. The tool is available in Japanese as well.
What chaff prints
1:1 4 sentences in a row open with "The tool is" (limit 3)
Fixed
The tool is free and needs no account. It works on phones too, and it speaks Japanese as well.
What chaff prints
no finding
How to fix
Reorder, or fold one sentence into the one before it.
Why it matters
Identical openings blur the boundary between sentences.
What it does not flag
List items that open the same way are a format, not a slip, so a run does not continue across items.
Turning it off or relaxing it
Silence this one spot (in the document)
<!-- stet: repeated-sentence-head — reason -->
Relax it for the team (the reason is kept as a comment in chaff.yaml)
npx chaffjs relax repeated-sentence-head --why "reason"
Turn it off for the team (chaff.yaml)
rules:
repeated-sentence-head: off
Technical details
- Layer
- L1
- Status
- stable
- Severity
- warning
- Languages
- Japanese and English
- Suited to
- blog, business, technical, legal, docs, academic, literature, speech
Levels
Set a level for this rule under rules in chaff.yaml. With nothing set, it runs at the level its genre gives it (see By genre below).
| strict | up to 2 sentences in a row with the same opening |
|---|---|
| normal | up to 3 sentences in a row with the same opening |
| relaxed | up to 4 sentences in a row with the same opening |
By genre
- Runs by default in
- technical/spec, technical/readme, blog/tech, blog/essay, blog/owned-media, business/proposal, business/report, business/email, business/press-release, business/meeting-notes, docs/manual, docs/faq, docs/glossary, academic/paper, speech/address
- Turned off by the genre in
- legal/contract, legal/statute, legal/judgment, legal/patent, literature/fiction, literature/essay, literature/poetry, literature/play, speech/transcript
Message
{count} sentences in a row open with "{head}" (limit {limit})
This page is built from the rule's definition file:packages/chaff/rules/repeated-sentence-head.yaml