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@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ You will probably get better results with GPT-4, because of its larger context w
 greater competance at coding.
 
 To function with GPT-3.5, aider needs to send it the original code
-and ask it to a full copy of the modified code.
+and ask it to return a full copy of the modified code.
 Both the original and modified copies of the code count towards the 4k token context window limit.
 In practice, this means you can only add files to the chat that are
 smaller than about 2k tokens (8k bytes).