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@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ Code should be committed as follows:
  * CSS: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk/tree/master/res/css
  * Theme specific CSS & resources: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk/tree/master/res/themes
 
-React components in matrix-react-sdk are come in two different flavours:
+React components in matrix-react-sdk come in two different flavours:
 'structures' and 'views'.  Structures are stateful components which handle the
 more complicated business logic of the app, delegating their actual presentation
 rendering to stateless 'view' components.  For instance, the RoomView component