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Four checks All in one 43/90 caught
Grammar & spelling 30/45 Repetitions 4/15 Redundancy 6/15 Consistency 3/15 44 comments · 2 extra flags
DeepSeek V4 Pro's comments when asked for all 4 checks in one prompt on our 6,000-word test story, where it left it. Click a missed mistake to find it in the text. The checks come from icanwrite , a markdown editor for writers.
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Grammar & spellingwho, not whom: subject of 'was' “whom she guessed was the owner” Grammar & spellingraise/rise: rents had risen “where rents had raised every year” Grammar & spellingCounterfactual takes the past perfect: If she had called “If she would have called ahead” Grammar & spellingany other shop: the bakery is on Wharf Street “longer than any shop on Wharf Street” Grammar & spellingFragment: the survey has no verb “The survey from twelve years ago, which an engineer from the county” Grammar & spellingIndirect question, statement order: how the lawyer had been “asked how had the lawyer been” Grammar & spellingMissing auxiliary: had been “The fuse box by the back door been painted shut” Grammar & spellingUnpaired comma: Marsh, stood “who introduced herself as Rebecca Marsh stood” Grammar & spellingIndirect question ends with a period “had even noticed she was gone?” Grammar & spellingRestrictive clause, no commas: the entries that held “The entries, which held only a single word, were” Grammar & spellingin to, not into “turned his uniform into the quartermaster” Grammar & spellingan MBA: said 'em-bee-ay' “Daniel had a MBA” Grammar & spellingstationery, not stationary “a box of cream stationary” Grammar & spelling'one of those who' takes a plural verb: were “one of the last binders in New England who was still” Grammar & spellingComma splice “open on her chest, she woke at dawn” RepetitionsClose: careful … careful “his careful hands” RepetitionsClose: silence … silent “The silence in the workshop” RepetitionsDistinctive, chapters apart: meticulous “His records were meticulous” RepetitionsClose: neatly … neat “neatly labeled” RepetitionsDistinctive, chapters apart: gleaming “a gleaming pair of shoes” RepetitionsDistinctive, chapters apart: sodden “carrying sodden leaves” RepetitionsClose: in earnest … in earnest “the rain had started in earnest” RepetitionsDistinctive, chapters apart: brittle “a short, brittle sound” RepetitionsDistinctive, chapters apart: stubbornly “which stuck stubbornly” RepetitionsClose: remembered … memory “her hands remembered” RepetitionsClose: stiffness … stiff “some of the stiffness” Redundancytwins are two “the two twins” Redundancyone shrugs with the shoulders “shrugged his shoulders” Redundancythe reason … was because “was because he had never paid himself” Redundancya sum is a total “The sum total” Redundancyan agreement is mutual “By mutual agreement” Redundancyplanning is in advance “no advance planning” Redundancya haven is safe “a safe haven” Redundancybegan is first “the week we first began” Redundancyjoin together “wants them to join together” ConsistencyThe bakery has three tables; she sits at the fourth “three small tables” ConsistencyGrandfather's eyes: grey, then blue “the same gray eyes as her grandfather” ConsistencySaid on Friday: the day after tomorrow is Sunday “On Friday a woman knocked” ConsistencyDaniel is younger, yet born a year before her “her younger brother, Daniel” ConsistencyThe ledger: green, then red “a ledger bound in green leather” ConsistencyTea becomes coffee “poured her a mug of tea” ConsistencyTomas beside him: two decades, then thirty years “for most of two decades” ConsistencyThe bakery: two doors down, then a ten-minute walk “BAKERY TWO DOORS DOWN” ConsistencyNora's home: Chicago, then Boston “the firm in Chicago” ConsistencyOpening year: 1962, then 1971 “opened the shop in 1962” ConsistencyGrandmother: Ruth, then Rose “her grandmother, Ruth” ConsistencyWrites left-handed, then with his right “He had been left-handed”