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 Rather than refering directly to a top-level `actionChannel` as we did in
 example 1, we give the channel as an argument so that each counter can be
 sending messages along different channels. This will let us augment a basic
-`Counter.Action` with extra information so that we know which counter is needs
+`Counter.Action` with extra information so that we know which counter needs
 to be updated. 
 
 Creating modular code is all about creating strong abstractions. We want
@@ -592,4 +592,4 @@ If this is not clear, maybe I will write example 5 that shows this pattern in
 action. In the meantime, you can see examples like this in [the fancy version
 of the TodoMVC app written in Elm][fancy].
 
-[fancy]: https://github.com/evancz/elm-todomvc/blob/trim/Todo.elm
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