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 ## How to contribute to open source
 
-First, let's find a repository - or: repo - on GitHub of interest to you and to which you'd like to contribute a change. You will want to copy the contents of to our machine.
+First, let's find a repository (or **repo**) on GitHub of interest to you and to which you'd like to contribute a change. You will want to copy its contents to your machine.
 
 ✅ A good way to find 'beginner-friendly' repos is to [search by the tag 'good-first-issue'](https://github.blog/2020-01-22-browse-good-first-issues-to-start-contributing-to-open-source/).