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 ### Hoisting
 
 Hoisting is JavaScript's default behavior of adding declarations to memory during the compile phase.
-Hoisting allow for JavaScript variables to be used before they have been declared.
+Hoisting allows for JavaScript variables to be used before the line they were declared on.