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Prose check: unfinished sentencesShe opened the door and stepped inside
You stopped mid-sentence to make tea, and never came back to it. Falcontext finds those unfinished sentences.
Which unfinished sentences it finds
- A paragraph with no full stop at the end.
- A line break in the middle of a sentence.
- A small letter starting a sentence.
- A quotation mark or bracket that’s opened and never closed.
the room was cold. “Who’s there? she called.
What it leaves alone
Headings, abbreviations, and the paragraph you’re writing right now. It knows you’re not done.
How Falcontext checks unfinished sentences
Guidelines, not rules. Fragments on purpose are style. Ignore them at your leisure.
- Finds
- Paragraphs with no full stop, line breaks mid-sentence, sentences starting with a small letter, and quotation marks or brackets never closed.
- Traffic light
- None
- 1–5
- 6 or more
The Write tab spots them in today’s writing, every few seconds.
A missing full stop is a proofreading catch, part of the fifth pass of a self-edit, once you’ve stopped rewriting.
Where does your sentence usually stop when life interrupts?
Questions about unfinished sentences.
How do I find unclosed quotation marks in my novel?
Falcontext’s unfinished sentences check finds quotation marks and brackets opened and never closed, along with paragraphs that have no full stop. It’s free.
Will it flag the paragraph I’m writing?
No. The paragraph being written is left alone, and so are headings and abbreviations.
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