diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
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--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Building Pure is easy, run `grunt`:
 $ grunt
 ```
 
-Pure use [CSSLint][] for basic testing to make sure we're shipping valid CSS
+Pure uses [CSSLint][] for basic testing to make sure we're shipping valid CSS
 which complies with standard best practices. To run Pure's tests, run
 `grunt test`: