why use a comparator before the front end S/H circuit in pipeline ADC

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this is a 10bit pipeline adc, it has a front end sampling hold circuit which followed by 8 stages of MDACs, each stage is 1.5bit, the last stage is a 2bit flash adc.
but in front end s/h circuit, there is a 1bit comparator, it output to digital error correction, why they use the comparator , how this works in digital correction?
 

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