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 This is a repository for demonstrating the process of doing a pull request.
 
-The README is a useful file for including general information about the repository and its contents.
+The README is a very useful file for including general information about the repository and its contents.
 It is rendered using [markdown](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/), which is essentially a
-way to create readable plain-text documents that can be rendered as web pages or other media formats.
+way to create a readable plain-text documents that can be rendered as web pages and other media formats.