expand checklist item 16

prompts/LLM_PROSE_TELLS.md

@@ -402,9 +402,13 @@ passes, because fixing one pattern often introduces another.
     delete it or expand it into a complete sentence that adds actual
     information.
 
-16. Check for unnecessary elaboration at the end of sentences. Read the last
-    clause or phrase of each sentence and ask whether the sentence would lose
-    any meaning without it. If not, cut it.
+16. Check for unnecessary elaboration. Read every clause, phrase, and adjective
+    in each sentence and ask whether the sentence loses meaning without it. This
+    includes trailing clauses that restate what the sentence already said,
+    redundant modifiers ("a single paragraph" when "a paragraph" works),
+    secondary clauses that add nothing ("which is why this matters"), and any
+    words whose removal doesn't change the meaning. If you can cut it and the
+    sentence still says the same thing, cut it.
 
 17. Find every pivot paragraph ("But here's where it gets interesting." and
     similar) and delete it. The paragraph after it always contains the actual