This reminds me of when my team started code reviewing feature documentation. The text was going to have to be read hundreds of times and understanding it would

This reminds me of when my team started code reviewing feature documentation. The text was going to have to be read hundreds of times and understanding it would be critical for QA to function properly. A common problem we ran into was sentences that were hard to understand without reading them multiple times due to small connective parts of speech being omitted. It intuitively felt wrong, but it was not immediately obvious why. After researching it a little every case seemed to boil down to resolving ambiguity. English is filled with ambiguous words that can be multiple parts of speech. These seemingly unnecessary pieces of syntax are actually really efficient at hinting what part of speech will come next so that the context is immediately understood.