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Review gerunds

gerunds

Finds standalone gerund forms worth reviewing, excluding recognized auxiliaries and compound constructions.

Usage of this metric

When enabled and matches are found, the report contains one item with this metric_id in result.suggestions. Absence means no match was found, not that the metric was not evaluated.

Location in the resultresult.suggestions[]metric_id = "gerunds"

Calculation method

Uses gerund verb tags (VBG in EN) and auxiliary attributes to exclude already recognized periphrastic forms.

Result interpretation

Each `occurrences` item identifies an affected span. `start` is inclusive and `end` exclusive, both measured in Unicode code points over the submitted text. `replacement`, `alternatives` and `edits` contain values only when a safe change is available. Absence means no match was found, not necessarily that the text is correct.

Limitations

Results depend on FreeLing/DiSeg tagging and may contain false positives or miss ambiguous constructions.

Dependencies

language: en
implementation_version: 1.2

Valid example

{
  "category": "morphosyntax",
  "examples": null,
  "explanation": null,
  "id": "sug_1",
  "implementation_version": "1.2",
  "metric_id": "gerunds",
  "metric_title": "Review gerunds",
  "occurrences": [
    {
      "alternatives": [],
      "edits": [],
      "end": 25,
      "id": "occ_1",
      "paragraph_index": 0,
      "replacement": null,
      "sentence_index": 0,
      "start": 18,
      "text": "example"
    }
  ],
  "recommendations": [
    "Review the detected fragment in context."
  ],
  "severity": "warning",
  "summary": "Example detection returned by this metric."
}

GET /v1/metrics/gerunds

Complete request, response and error contracts, generated automatically from the code.

Open the JSON record