diff --git a/book/05-distributed-git/sections/contributing.asc b/book/05-distributed-git/sections/contributing.asc
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-Finally, Jessica might want to make a couple minor changes to all that merged content, so she is free to make those changes, commit them to her local `featureA` branch, and push the end result back to the server:
+Finally, Jessica might want to make a couple of minor changes to all that merged content, so she is free to make those changes, commit them to her local `featureA` branch, and push the end result back to the server:
 
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