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 ## Summary
 
-*Illustrates how you can use it to access your local Docker install from inside the a dev container by simply volume mounting the Docker unix socket. This variation uses Docker Compose to do the volume mounting.*
+*Illustrates how you can use it to access your local Docker install from inside a dev container by simply volume mounting the Docker unix socket. This variation uses Docker Compose to do the volume mounting.*
 
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