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The sentence that announces it is about to say something

Three rows at weight 3 matching the phrase families "it's important to note", "it is important to note" and "it's worth noting".

Our detector calls this category “Hedging filler”. The patterns below are read out of functions/api/tools/detect.js when this page is built. A match is a fact about a phrase, not about who wrote the text.

Where this phrase showed up

Did not appear in the licensed samples we checked — no human sample and no AI sample. The rule still matches text that contains its own pattern. The constructed example below is that check.

We are not going to invent an example to fill the gap. What we can show instead is a sentence we wrote ourselves, purely to check that the rule is live.

A constructed example — written by us, not evidence

This sentence was written for this check. It is not from the licensed samples, nobody wrote it as real prose, and it says nothing about how anyone writes. Its only job is to prove the rule still fires, and the generator fails the build if it stops.

“It's important to note that the deadline moved to Friday.”

  • /it['']s important to note/gi → “It's important to note”

What it means when a person writes this way

Careful institutional writing runs on this construction. It is how a reviewer flags a caveat without asserting a conclusion, and how a report writer signals that the next clause carries a qualification. The construction is filler in the sense that the sentence usually survives its deletion — that is a style judgement, not evidence about who typed it.

The patterns, as the engine holds them

3 of the 70 rows in our phrase table carry this label. They are printed here as they are written, because a paraphrase of a regular expression is a different regular expression.

/it['']s important to note/gi weight 3

Matches “it's important to note” , in any capitalisation .

/it is important to note/gi weight 3

Matches “it is important to note” , in any capitalisation .

/it['']s worth noting/gi weight 3

Matches “it's worth noting” , in any capitalisation .

What a hit does to your score

The phrase model is one of four in our ensemble, and its formula is patternScore = min(98, max(5, 10 + 7 x total weight)). One occurrence of the heaviest row in this category takes that model from 10 to 31 out of 100 — and the pattern model carries 40% of the ensemble when the em-dash signal fires and 55% when it does not.

The apostrophe class covers the straight and both curly forms, so a smart-quoted document matches the same as a plain one.

Check your own text

Our detector is free and shows you which sentences it flagged and why, including this category. Treat the score as a starting point, not proof.

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