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-You can talk to us on Gitter and Matrix, tweet at us on X (previously Twitter) or create a new topic in the Solidity forum. Questions, feedback, and suggestions are welcome!
+You can talk to us on Gitter and Matrix, tweet at us on X (previously Twitter), or create a new topic in the Solidity forum. Questions, feedback, and suggestions are welcome!
 
-Solidity is a statically-typed, contract-oriented, high-level language for implementing smart contracts on the Ethereum platform.
+Solidity is a statically typed, contract-oriented, high-level language for implementing smart contracts on the Ethereum platform.
 
 For a good overview and starting point, please check out the official [Solidity Language Portal](https://soliditylang.org).
 
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 ## Background
 
-Solidity is a statically-typed curly-braces programming language designed for developing smart contracts
+Solidity is a statically typed curly-braces programming language designed for developing smart contracts
 that run on the Ethereum Virtual Machine. Smart contracts are programs that are executed inside a peer-to-peer
 network where nobody has special authority over the execution, and thus they allow anyone to implement tokens of value,
 ownership, voting, and other kinds of logic.
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 }
 ```
 
-To get started with Solidity, you can use [Remix](https://remix.ethereum.org/), which is a
+To start with Solidity, you can use [Remix](https://remix.ethereum.org/), a
 browser-based IDE. Here are some example contracts:
 
 1. [Voting](https://docs.soliditylang.org/en/latest/solidity-by-example.html#voting)
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 [Developer's Guide](https://docs.soliditylang.org/en/latest/contributing.html)
 if you want to help.
 
-You can find our current feature and bug priorities for forthcoming
+You can find our current feature and bug priorities for the forthcoming
 releases in the [projects section](https://github.com/ethereum/solidity/projects).
 
 ## Maintainers