Understanding How Correction Works
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Antidote’s Correction mode carries out an in-depth analysis of every sentence in your text. It first identifies each word along with its syntactic category, number, tense, etc. It then determines all the relevant links between the words: subject–verb, verb–object, etc. Once that is done, Antidote can then verify the appropriate agreement relationships between the words and propose any necessary corrections.
The following are some of the features of your text that Antidote automatically verifies: the correctness of various grammatical agreements (subject–verb, including agreement with coordinated subjects; articles and determiners with countable and uncountable nouns), verb mood, the written form of numbers, the use of hyphens, false friends, homophones, register, regionalisms, repetition, capitalization, punctuation and more.
Note that Antidote’s correction is based on the syntactic, grammatical and orthographic properties of your text, not its true meaning. Antidote does not really understand what a sentence means and can’t necessarily turn a poorly written text into a literary masterpiece. For interventions that are more geared towards meaning and how a message is conveyed, switch to the corrector’s Reformulation mode. A click of the “magic flask” button opens up the possibilities of generative AI: a parallel world of writing assistance that complements Antidote’s other tools with its creative writing skills.
Discontinuities
Despite all of the tools at its disposal, Antidote may not be able to analyze every sentence it encounters. It uses a dotted line to indicate the area where its analysis ends. In these cases, Antidote makes use of reformulation structures that fix the sentence.
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On rare occasions, the corrector may display some sentences in grey. These are usually sentences that Antidote was unable to analyze and therefore cannot provide any information about. If this happens, switch to Reformulation mode and ask Antidote for alternatives.