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 ![ALE Logo by Mark Grealish - https://www.bhalash.com/](img/logo.jpg?raw=true)
 
-ALE (Asynchronous Lint Engine) is a plugin for providing linting (checking of
+ALE (Asynchronous Lint Engine) is a plugin for providing linting (checking
 syntax and semantics) in NeoVim 0.2.0+ and Vim 8 while you edit your text files,
 and acts as a Vim [Language Server Protocol](https://langserver.org/) client.