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@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Concurrency and multithreading
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 An event loop runs in a thread and executes all callbacks and tasks in the same
-thread. While a task in running in the event loop, no other task is running in
+thread. While a task is running in the event loop, no other task is running in
 the same thread. But when the task uses ``yield from``, the task is suspended
 and the event loop executes the next task.