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 <!-- CONTRIBUTING -->
 ## Contributing
 
-Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to be learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are **greatly appreciated**. If you're going to be working on the code-base you'll want to use the nightly documentation to ensure you get the latest information.
+Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to be learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are **greatly appreciated**. If you're going to be working on the code-base, you'll want to use the nightly documentation to ensure you get the latest information.
 
 - See the [Contributors Guide](https://nightly.mealie.io/contributors/developers-guide/code-contributions/) for help getting started.
 - We use [VSCode Dev Containers](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers) to make it easy for contributors to get started!
 
-If you are not a coder, you can still contribute financially. financial contributions help me prioritize working on this project over others and helps me know that there is a real demand for project development.
+If you are not a coder, you can still contribute financially. Financial contributions help me prioritize working on this project over others and helps me know that there is a real demand for project development.
 
 <a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/haykot" target="_blank"><img src="https://cdn.buymeacoffee.com/buttons/v2/default-green.png" alt="Buy Me A Coffee" style="height: 30px !important;width: 107px !important;" ></a>
 
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ Distributed under the MIT License. See `LICENSE` for more information.
 
 ## Sponsors
 
-Huge thanks to all the sponsors of this project on [Github Sponsors](https://github.com/sponsors/hay-kot) and Buy Me a Coffee. Without you this project would surely not be possible.
+Huge thanks to all the sponsors of this project on [Github Sponsors](https://github.com/sponsors/hay-kot) and Buy Me a Coffee. Without you, this project would surely not be possible.
 
 Thanks to Linode for providing Hosting for the Demo, Beta, and Documentation sites! Another big thanks to JetBrains for providing their IDEs for development.