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@@ -12123,7 +12123,7 @@ <h1>Interesting Cases of Automatic Semicolon Insertion</h1>
 
     <p>As new syntactic features are added to ECMAScript, additional grammar productions could be added that cause lines relying on automatic semicolon insertion preceding them to change grammar productions when parsed.</p>
 
-    <p>The interesting cases of automatic semicolon insertion are thus places where a semicolon may or may not be inserted, depending on the source text which precedes it. The rest of this section describes a number of interesting cases of automatic semicolon insertion in this version of ECMAScript.</p>
+    <p>For the purposes of this section, a case of automatic semicolon insertion is considered interesting if it is a place where a semicolon may or may not be inserted, depending on the source text which precedes it. The rest of this section describes a number of interesting cases of automatic semicolon insertion in this version of ECMAScript.</p>
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       <h1>Interesting Cases of Automatic Semicolon Insertion in Statement Lists</h1>
       <p>In a |StatementList|, many |StatementListItem|s end in semicolons, which may be omitted using automatic semicolon insertion. As a consequence of the rules above, at the end of a line ending an expression, a semicolon is required if the following line begins with any of the following: