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@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ underlying homeserver implementation.
 
 ## Application Services
 
-Application services are passive and can only observe events from
+Application services are passive and can only observe events from the
 homeserver. They can inject events into rooms they are participating in.
 They cannot prevent events from being sent, nor can they modify the
 content of the event being sent. In order to observe events from a