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ai-style/copula-avoidance

Copula Avoidance

“stands/serves as a …” dressing up a plain “is a …”.

Default levelwarning
Confidencemedium
EvidenceDependency graph
CategoryInflated significance

What this rule reads

Matches grammatical relationships between words, not only their order or part of speech.

SlopSift reports the exact matching range. The finding is an editing prompt, not proof of who wrote the sentence.

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