Calculation method
Selects every paragraph containing exactly one closed sentence and reaching the genre's minimum word count; fragments without final punctuation (heading lines) do not count as a sentence.
RulesActive
Review sentence-paragraphs
single-sentence-paragraphs
Finds paragraphs made up of a single sentence so they can be reviewed for excessive density or insufficient development.
Usage of this metric
When enabled and matches are found, the report contains one item with this metric_id in result.recommendations. Absence means no match was found, not that the metric was not evaluated.
Location in the result
result.recommendations[]metric_id = "single-sentence-paragraphs"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 plain-text segmentation and recognizable structural markers; the signal alone does not imply a writing error.
Dependencies
- language
en- implementation_version
1.2
Valid example
{
"category": "discourse",
"examples": null,
"explanation": null,
"guidance": [
"Review the detected fragment in context."
],
"id": "rec_1",
"implementation_version": "1.2",
"metric_id": "single-sentence-paragraphs",
"metric_title": "Review sentence-paragraphs",
"occurrences": [
{
"alternatives": [],
"connectors": [],
"edits": [],
"end": 25,
"id": "occ_1",
"paragraph_index": 0,
"replacement": null,
"sentence_index": 0,
"spans": [],
"start": 18,
"text": "example"
}
],
"summary": "Example detection returned by this metric."
}GET /v1/metrics/single-sentence-paragraphs
Complete request, response and error contracts, generated automatically from the code.