# shared/manifests/writing.sentence.manifest.ts > 131 lines of code and 1 definition. Tree: Governance tree Language: typescript Layer: infrastructure Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/anatomy/governance#file-governance-shared-manifests-writing-sentence-manifest-ts Source text: https://banes-lab.com/source/governance/shared/manifests/writing.sentence.manifest.ts.txt Listed in [shared/manifests](https://banes-lab.com/api/source/governance/shared/manifests.md), after [shared/manifests/writing.root.manifest.ts](https://banes-lab.com/source/governance/shared/manifests/writing.root.manifest.ts.md) and before [shared/manifests/writing.short.manifest.ts](https://banes-lab.com/source/governance/shared/manifests/writing.short.manifest.ts.md). ## Definitions - `SENTENCE_RULES` (lexical_declaration, line 3, exported) ## Source ```typescript import type { CanonRule } from "../../types/writing.types.ts"; export const SENTENCE_RULES: readonly CanonRule[] = [ { bans: ['a trailing "of that " clause', "a repeated subject"], checks: [], conditions: ["the noun repeats only where a pronoun could point to two things"], examples: [ { rejected: "Each layer edge kind is listed with its definition and the topology edges of that kind.", repaired: "Each layer edge kind is listed with its definition and the topology edges that carry it.", why: '"Kind" comes back in the trailing clause.', }, { rejected: "The developer follows the principle unless the developer has a reason to depart from it.", repaired: "A principle that applies by default and gives way to a stated reason.", why: "The subject comes back, and a definition slot takes the form of its neighbors.", }, ], gate: null, id: "root.noun-once", rule: "A noun is named once per sentence.", why: "A repeated noun where a pronoun has one reading sounds generated.", }, { bans: ['"that is ."', '"this means that"'], checks: [{ detection: "check", enforcedIn: ["prose", "document"], id: "no-comment-on-previous" }], conditions: ['"This is done by…" adds a mechanism and passes'], examples: [ { rejected: "A fix is applied, re-validated and converges, so applying it twice changes nothing. That is idempotency.", repaired: "A fix is idempotent: applying it twice changes nothing.", why: "The second sentence exists only to hang a label.", }, ], gate: "local/strings-composition", id: "root.no-comment-on-previous", rule: "A sentence never exists to comment on, label or re-explain the sentence before it.", why: "A sentence that points back adds no fact.", }, { bans: [], checks: [ { detection: "check", enforcedIn: ["prose", "document"], id: "no-restatement" }, { detection: "review", enforcedIn: [], id: "no-implied-fact" }, ], conditions: [ "elaboration that unpacks a term into its meaning adds information and passes", "the check reports near-verbatim repeats, and review holds paraphrase and implication", ], examples: [ { rejected: "Every piece of work here has the same shape. Work has one shape, and the shape is the loop.", repaired: "Every piece of work passes through the same ten steps.", why: "One proposition is said twice.", }, { rejected: "Read the output whole. A partial read is not a whole read.", repaired: "Read the output whole.", why: "The second sentence spells out what the first implies.", }, ], gate: "local/strings-composition", id: "root.say-it-once", rule: "Each proposition is said once, and an implication the reader already drew is not spelled out.", why: "A repeated proposition reads as two facts. The reader looks for the difference, finds none, and trusts the rest less.", }, { bans: [], checks: [{ detection: "check", enforcedIn: [], id: "one-instruction-per-sentence" }], conditions: [], examples: [ { rejected: "Read the report and fix the first finding, then run the gate again.", repaired: "Read the report. Fix the first finding. Run the gate again.", why: "Three instructions share one sentence.", }, ], gate: "local/strings-sentence-shape", id: "root.one-instruction", rule: "One sentence carries one instruction.", why: "The reader carries out a sentence as one step, so a second instruction in it hides the order and can be skipped.", }, { bans: [ "a fragment", "clauses joined by a comma alone", "clauses joined by a semicolon", "a long dash joining two thoughts", "stacked short sentences for rhythm", ], checks: [ { detection: "check", enforcedIn: ["document"], id: "no-semicolon" }, { detection: "check", enforcedIn: ["document"], id: "no-long-dash" }, ], conditions: ["a tagline, a label or a card line may stay a phrase, and a phrase carries no full stop"], examples: [ { rejected: "The tooling detects — the model repairs — you verify.", repaired: "The tooling detects. The model repairs. You verify.", why: "The dash hides a sentence boundary.", }, { rejected: "The report is written on every exit path; a present report is not a passing one.", repaired: "The report is written on every exit path. A present report is not a passing one.", why: "The semicolon joins two sentences.", }, { rejected: "The number moved. What changed more is who enforces it.", repaired: "The cap rose from 150 to 200 lines, and the line-cap step now enforces it.", why: "Two short sentences built for rhythm split one fact.", }, ], gate: "local/strings-punctuation", id: "root.complete-clauses", rule: "Every sentence has a subject and a finite verb, and two clauses are two sentences or joined by a conjunction.", why: "A fragment or a spliced clause makes the reader rebuild the sentence.", }, { bans: [], checks: [{ detection: "check", enforcedIn: ["prose", "document"], id: "sentence-cap" }], conditions: [ "the cap is seeded from the longest sentence the tone baseline measured, and lowered as copy is rewritten", ], examples: [], gate: "local/strings-sentence-shape", id: "root.sentence-cap", rule: "A sentence stays under the word cap.", why: "A long sentence carries a nested clause the reader has to unpack. Shortening is not a repair of any other rule.", }, ]; ```