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 ## Bonus: Named parameters
 
-Another nice thing about Scala is that you can used named parameters when creating a new instance of a class. For instance, given this class:
+Another nice thing about Scala is that you can use named parameters when creating a new instance of a class. For instance, given this class:
 
 ```scala
 class Socket(var timeout: Int, var linger: Int) {