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@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ The key features of Nomad are:
 
 * **Docker Support**: Jobs can specify tasks which are Docker containers.
   Nomad will automatically run the containers on clients which have Docker
-  installed, scale up and down based on the number of instances request,
+  installed, scale up and down based on the number of instances requested,
   and automatically recover from failures.
 
 * **Multi-Datacenter and Multi-Region Aware**: Nomad is designed to be