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Rephrases sentence, closes #2409
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JJ committed Nov 3, 2018
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Expand Up @@ -1578,9 +1578,10 @@ Adverbs, which modify how regexes work and provide convenient shortcuts for
certain kinds of recurring tasks, are combinations of one or more letters
preceded by a colon C<:>.
There are two kinds of adverbs: I<regex> adverbs apply at the point where a
regex is defined, and I<matching> adverbs apply at the point that a regex
matches against a string.
The so-called I<regex> adverbs apply at the point where a regex is defined;
additionally, I<matching> adverbs apply at the point that a regex matches
against a string and I<substitution> adverbs are applied exclusively in
substitutions.
This distinction often blurs, because matching and declaration are often
textually close but using the method form of matching, that is, C<.match>, makes
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