diff --git a/src/DiffEngine.Tests/InlinePatcherTests.cs b/src/DiffEngine.Tests/InlinePatcherTests.cs
index dc41c54c..b3898492 100644
--- a/src/DiffEngine.Tests/InlinePatcherTests.cs
+++ b/src/DiffEngine.Tests/InlinePatcherTests.cs
@@ -123,6 +123,29 @@ public async Task ASnapshotBeforeAVerbatimStringOpeningOnAnEscapedQuoteIsStillFo
     const string q3 = "\"\"\"";
     const string q4 = "\"\"\"\"";
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// A chain the test ended by hand. Snapshot returns the SettingsTask and GetAwaiter does not,
+    /// so appending after the end of the chain produced source that does not compile - and
+    /// reported Applied while doing it, which leaves the snapshot recorded as accepted.
+    /// </summary>
+    [Test]
+    [Arguments("GetAwaiter().GetResult()")]
+    [Arguments("ConfigureAwait(false)")]
+    [Arguments("ToTask()")]
+    public async Task AppendGoesInFrontOfAChainTerminator(string tail)
+    {
+        var source = Method($"        await Verify(x).{tail};");
+
+        var status = TryApply(source, 5, InlinePatchMode.Append, null, "new", out var newSource, out var reason);
+
+        await Assert.That(status).IsEqualTo(PatchStatus.Applied);
+        await Assert.That(reason).IsEmpty();
+        // In front of the terminator, so the chain the Snapshot is appended to is still a chain
+        await Assert.That(newSource).Contains("Snapshot(");
+        await Assert.That(newSource.IndexOf("Snapshot(", StringComparison.Ordinal))
+            .IsLessThan(newSource.IndexOf(tail.Split('(')[0], StringComparison.Ordinal));
+    }
+
     /// <summary>
     /// A hint that has gone stale and now points into another member. The recorded line is tried
     /// first so two snapshots in one member stay apart, but it is only evidence while it is still
diff --git a/src/DiffEngine/Inline/CsLanguage.cs b/src/DiffEngine/Inline/CsLanguage.cs
index f8756749..0e745e2c 100644
--- a/src/DiffEngine/Inline/CsLanguage.cs
+++ b/src/DiffEngine/Inline/CsLanguage.cs
@@ -19,6 +19,26 @@ public override bool TryParse(string expression, [NotNullWhen(true)] out string?
 
     internal override char NameSeparator => ':';
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// The calls a C# verify chain ends with when it stops being a verify chain: awaiting it by
+    /// hand, blocking on it, or converting it. Each is a real member of SettingsTask - checked
+    /// against Verify's source rather than guessed - and none of them returns one.
+    /// <para>
+    /// So a Snapshot appended after any of them is not merely bad style. SettingsTask.ToTask sets
+    /// its task field, and CurrentSettings then throws "This SettingsTask instance has already
+    /// been converted to a Task and can no longer be modified" - so where such a patch compiles at
+    /// all it fails at run time, and where it does not compile the patch still reported Applied
+    /// and the snapshot was recorded as accepted.
+    /// </para>
+    /// </summary>
+    internal override string[] ChainTerminators =>
+    [
+        "GetAwaiter",
+        "GetResult",
+        "ConfigureAwait",
+        "ToTask"
+    ];
+
     internal override bool IsIdentifierChar(char ch) =>
         char.IsLetterOrDigit(ch) || ch == '_';
 
diff --git a/src/DiffEngine/Inline/FsLanguage.cs b/src/DiffEngine/Inline/FsLanguage.cs
index 3f415493..8acd0c50 100644
--- a/src/DiffEngine/Inline/FsLanguage.cs
+++ b/src/DiffEngine/Inline/FsLanguage.cs
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ public override bool TryParse(string expression, [NotNullWhen(true)] out string?
     /// test ends the chain with ToTask. Snapshot returns the SettingsTask and ToTask does not, so
     /// an appended call goes in front of it rather than after it.
     /// </summary>
-    internal override string? ChainTerminator => "ToTask";
+    internal override string[] ChainTerminators => ["ToTask"];
 
     /// <summary>
     /// The F# compiler does not implement <see cref="CallerArgumentExpressionAttribute"/> - it
diff --git a/src/DiffEngine/Inline/InlinePatcher.cs b/src/DiffEngine/Inline/InlinePatcher.cs
index cb99189d..c65d1c10 100644
--- a/src/DiffEngine/Inline/InlinePatcher.cs
+++ b/src/DiffEngine/Inline/InlinePatcher.cs
@@ -472,13 +472,13 @@ static PatchStatus TryRemove(
     /// <summary>
     /// Walks the calls chained onto an invocation and returns where a call should be appended:
     /// the end of the chain, or the point in front of the language's
-    /// <see cref="SourceLanguage.ChainTerminator"/> when the chain ends in one.
+    /// <see cref="SourceLanguage.ChainTerminators"/> when the chain ends in one.
     /// <paramref name="found"/> is set when one of them is a call to <paramref name="name"/>.
     /// </summary>
     static int WalkChain(string source, SourceScan scan, int index, string name, out bool found)
     {
         found = false;
-        var terminator = scan.Language.ChainTerminator;
+        var terminators = scan.Language.ChainTerminators;
         // Where the chain was before the terminating call, which is where an appended one goes:
         // in front of the terminator, and behind the whitespace and line break that introduced it
         var beforeTerminator = -1;
@@ -514,9 +514,8 @@ static int WalkChain(string source, SourceScan scan, int index, string name, out
                 found = true;
             }
 
-            if (terminator != null &&
-                beforeTerminator < 0 &&
-                IsCall(source, nameStart, cursor, terminator))
+            if (beforeTerminator < 0 &&
+                IsTerminator(source, nameStart, cursor, terminators))
             {
                 beforeTerminator = index;
             }
@@ -527,6 +526,19 @@ static int WalkChain(string source, SourceScan scan, int index, string name, out
         return beforeTerminator < 0 ? index : beforeTerminator;
     }
 
+    static bool IsTerminator(string source, int nameStart, int nameEnd, string[] terminators)
+    {
+        foreach (var terminator in terminators)
+        {
+            if (IsCall(source, nameStart, nameEnd, terminator))
+            {
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+
+        return false;
+    }
+
     static bool IsCall(string source, int nameStart, int nameEnd, string name) =>
         nameEnd - nameStart == name.Length &&
         string.CompareOrdinal(source, nameStart, name, 0, name.Length) == 0;
diff --git a/src/DiffEngine/Inline/SourceLanguage.cs b/src/DiffEngine/Inline/SourceLanguage.cs
index c2679d8c..45c66a44 100644
--- a/src/DiffEngine/Inline/SourceLanguage.cs
+++ b/src/DiffEngine/Inline/SourceLanguage.cs
@@ -86,10 +86,15 @@ public static SourceLanguage ForFile(string path)
     internal abstract char NameSeparator { get; }
 
     /// <summary>
-    /// A chained call that a Snapshot call has to be appended in front of rather than after, or
-    /// null when the end of the chain is always the insertion point.
+    /// Chained calls that a Snapshot call has to be appended in front of rather than after, or
+    /// empty when the end of the chain is always the insertion point.
+    /// <para>
+    /// These are the calls that turn the verify chain into something that is no longer one -
+    /// awaiting it, blocking on it, converting it - so a Snapshot appended after one is appended
+    /// to the wrong type and the file stops compiling.
+    /// </para>
     /// </summary>
-    internal virtual string? ChainTerminator => null;
+    internal virtual string[] ChainTerminators => [];
 
     /// <summary>
     /// Whether a patch from this language carries the source text of the expected argument, which