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 ### Prerequisites
 
-Base R some basic tools for creating and manipulating factors.
+Base R provides some basic tools for creating and manipulating factors.
 We'll supplement these with the **forcats** package, which is part of the core tidyverse.
 It provides tools for dealing with **cat**egorical variables (and it's an anagram of factors!) using a wide range of helpers for working with factors.