diff --git a/src/nl/hannahsten/texifyidea/inspections/grazie/LatexTextExtractor.kt b/src/nl/hannahsten/texifyidea/inspections/grazie/LatexTextExtractor.kt
index d9527a066..e11bff279 100644
--- a/src/nl/hannahsten/texifyidea/inspections/grazie/LatexTextExtractor.kt
+++ b/src/nl/hannahsten/texifyidea/inspections/grazie/LatexTextExtractor.kt
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package nl.hannahsten.texifyidea.inspections.grazie
 import com.intellij.grazie.grammar.strategy.StrategyUtils
 import com.intellij.grazie.text.TextContent
 import com.intellij.grazie.text.TextExtractor
+import com.intellij.lang.tree.util.children
 import com.intellij.psi.PsiElement
 import com.intellij.psi.PsiWhiteSpace
 import com.intellij.psi.util.startOffset
@@ -57,20 +58,17 @@ class LatexTextExtractor : TextExtractor() {
             .filter { !it.inMathContext() && it.isNotInSquareBrackets() }
             // Ordering is relevant for whitespace
             .sortedBy { it.startOffset }
-
             // Always keep newlines, as they may be the only whitespace splitting consecutive commands
             .filter { text -> text !is PsiWhiteSpace || text.text.contains("\n") }
-
             // Skip arguments of non-text commands, but keep arguments of unknown commands, in particular if they are in the middle of a sentence
             // Even commends which have no text as argument, for example certain reference commands like auteref, may need to be kept in to get correct punctuation
             .filterNot { text -> text is LatexParameterText && LatexCommand.lookup(text.firstParentOfType(LatexCommands::class)?.name)?.firstOrNull()?.arguments?.any { it.type != Argument.Type.TEXT && it.type != Argument.Type.LABEL } == true }
-
             // Environment names are never part of a sentence
             .filterNot { text -> text.firstParentOfType<LatexBeginCommand>() != null || text.firstParentOfType<LatexEndCommand>() != null }
-
+            // If we encounter an unescaped &, we are in some language construct like a tabular, so we ignore this because ofter a tabular does not contain full sentences
+            .filter { text -> text.node.children().none { it.elementType == LatexTypes.AMPERSAND } }
             // NOTE: it is not allowed to start the text we send to Grazie with a newline! If we do, then Grazie will just not do anything. So we exclude whitespace at the start
             .dropWhile { it is PsiWhiteSpace }
-
             // Ranges that we need to keep
             // Note that textRangeInParent will not be correct because that's the text range in the direct parent, not in the root
             .flatMap { text ->
diff --git a/test/nl/hannahsten/texifyidea/inspections/grazie/GrazieInspectionTest.kt b/test/nl/hannahsten/texifyidea/inspections/grazie/GrazieInspectionTest.kt
index 1dad2e4ad..4b2214a19 100644
--- a/test/nl/hannahsten/texifyidea/inspections/grazie/GrazieInspectionTest.kt
+++ b/test/nl/hannahsten/texifyidea/inspections/grazie/GrazieInspectionTest.kt
@@ -37,30 +37,34 @@ class GrazieInspectionTest : BasePlatformTestCase() {
     }
 
     fun testCommentInText() {
-        myFixture.configureByText(LatexFileType, """
+        myFixture.configureByText(
+            LatexFileType,
+            """
             \begin{document}
                 All <GRAMMAR_ERROR descr="The verb 'is' is singular. Did you mean: this is or those are?">those is</GRAMMAR_ERROR> problems in the middle of a sentence.
                 % <GRAMMAR_ERROR descr="The verb 'is' is singular. Did you mean: this is or Those are?">Those is</GRAMMAR_ERROR> a problem in a comment
                 <GRAMMAR_ERROR descr="The verb 'is' is singular. Did you mean: this is or Those are?">Those is</GRAMMAR_ERROR> a problem at the beginning of a sentence.
             \end{document}
-        """.trimIndent())
+            """.trimIndent()
+        )
         myFixture.checkHighlighting(true, false, false, true)
     }
 
     fun testSentenceAtEnvironmentStart() {
-        myFixture.configureByText(LatexFileType, """
+        myFixture.configureByText(
+            LatexFileType,
+            """
             \begin{document}
                 <GRAMMAR_ERROR descr="Use An instead of 'A' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'.">A</GRAMMAR_ERROR> apple a day keeps the doctor away.
                 Some other sentence.
             \end{document}
-        """.trimIndent())
+            """.trimIndent()
+        )
         myFixture.checkHighlighting(true, false, false, true)
     }
 
     fun testInlineMath() {
-        myFixture.configureByText(
-            LatexFileType, """Does Grazie detect ${'$'}m$ as a sentence?"""
-        )
+        myFixture.configureByText(LatexFileType, """Does Grazie detect ${'$'}m$ as a sentence?""")
         myFixture.checkHighlighting()
     }
 
@@ -76,9 +80,7 @@ class GrazieInspectionTest : BasePlatformTestCase() {
     }
 
     fun testMatchingParens() {
-        myFixture.configureByText(
-            LatexFileType, """A sentence (in this case). More sentence."""
-        )
+        myFixture.configureByText(LatexFileType, """A sentence (in this case). More sentence.""")
         myFixture.checkHighlighting()
     }
 
@@ -171,14 +173,12 @@ class GrazieInspectionTest : BasePlatformTestCase() {
      * To find a rule id, search for the name in https://community.languagetool.org/rule/list and use the id together with the prefex from LangTool.globalIdPrefix
      */
 
-
     fun testCommaInSentence() {
         GrazieConfig.update { it.copy(userEnabledRules = setOf("LanguageTool.EN.COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE")) }
         myFixture.configureByText(LatexFileType, """\label{fig} Similar to the structure presented in \autoref{fig}, it is.""")
         myFixture.checkHighlighting()
     }
 
-
     fun testCommandsInSentence() {
         GrazieConfig.update { it.copy(userEnabledRules = setOf("LanguageTool.EN.CONSECUTIVE_SPACES")) }
         myFixture.configureByText(LatexFileType, """The principles of a generic \ac{PID} controller.""")
@@ -200,15 +200,18 @@ class GrazieInspectionTest : BasePlatformTestCase() {
     }
 
     fun testNewlinesShouldBeKept() {
-        val text =  """
+        val text = """
             \section{First}
             \section{Second}
         """.trimIndent()
         myFixture.configureByText(LatexFileType, text)
         val submittedText = getSubmittedText(myFixture.file)
-        assertEquals("""
+        assertEquals(
+            """
             First
             Second
-        """.trimIndent(), submittedText)
+            """.trimIndent(),
+            submittedText
+        )
     }
 }
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