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 ## Traits
 
-We have seen traits before: `Debug`, `Copy`, `Clone` are all traits. To give a type a trait, you have to implement it. Because `Debug` and the others are so common, we have attributes that automatically do it. That's what happens you write `#[derive(Debug)]`: you are automatically implementing `Debug`.
+We have seen traits before: `Debug`, `Copy`, `Clone` are all traits. To give a type a trait, you have to implement it. Because `Debug` and the others are so common, we have attributes that automatically do it. That's what happens when you write `#[derive(Debug)]`: you are automatically implementing `Debug`.
 
 ```rust
 #[derive(Debug)]