Syntax Highlight: A pro writing tool in iA Writer for people who know how to use parts of speech to improve their writing. Used for hunting down adjectives and adverbs, finding phoney conjunctions, weak verbs and repetitions. We hate to explain the feature and fail to explain it well. It seems obvious to us, so we get to upset when we try to explain it calmly. Foreign language teachers love it.

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