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Capitalize 'American' and 'Republican'; change 'merly' to 'merely'; change 'subject to debate' to 'subject of debate'; add commas around 'for example'; change 'significance' to 'significant'; add 'by' before 'a desire'; change 'deference of' to 'deference to'.

Edit the following text. Some argue that american politics has become so polarized that politicians will argue merly to gain power, and the subject to debate is often negligible. The vigorous dispute over where to place a comma in the republican platform for example was motivated not by any significance change of meaning but a desire not to show any deference of the other side.

Edited text

Some argue that American politics has become so polarized that politicians will argue merely to gain power, and the subject of debate is often negligible. The vigorous dispute over where to place a comma in the Republican platform, for example, was motivated not by any significant change of meaning but by a desire not to show any deference to the other side.

Corrections made

  • "american" and "republican" capitalised as proper adjectives.
  • "merly" corrected to "merely".
  • "the subject to debate" changed to "the subject of debate".
  • Commas placed around "for example".
  • "significance" changed to the adjective "significant".
  • "but a desire" changed to "but by a desire" to keep the parallel structure with "by any significant change".
  • "deference of the other side" changed to "deference to the other side".

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