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@@ -804,7 +804,7 @@ But in general, whenever you create patterns from existing strings it's wise to
 
 3.  `colors()` contains a number of modifiers like "lightgray" and "darkblue".
     How could you automatically identify these modifiers?
-    (Think about how you might detect and then removed the colors that are modified).
+    (Think about how you might detect and then remove the colors that are modified).
 
 4.  Create a regular expression that finds any base R dataset.
     You can get a list of these datasets via a special use of the `data()` function: `data(package = "datasets")$results[, "Item"]`.