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@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ consumers of your library:
 
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 A scope may be provided to a commit's type, to provide additional contextual information and
-is contained within parenthesis, e.g., `feat(parser): adds ability to parse arrays`.
+is contained within parenthesis, e.g., `feat(parser): add ability to parse arrays`.
 
 Commit _types_ other than `fix:` and `feat:` are allowed, for example [the Angular convention](https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#commit) recommends `docs:`, `style:`, `refactor:`, `perf:`, `test:`, `chore:`, but these tags are
 not mandated by the conventional commits specification.