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 Undertow is a flexible performant web server written in java, providing both blocking and non-blocking API's based on NIO.
 
 Undertow has a composition based architecture that allows you to build a web server by combining small single purpose
-handlers. The gives you the flexibility to choose between a full Java EE servlet 4.0 container, or a low level non-blocking
+handlers. This design gives you the flexibility to choose between a full Java EE servlet 4.0 container, or a low level non-blocking
 handler, to anything in between.
 
 Undertow is designed to be fully embeddable, with easy to use fluent builder APIs. Undertow's lifecycle is completely