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 ### Code analysis
 
-Before committing your code, please run a code formatter. This can be achieved with running `dotnet format` in the command line, or the `Format code` command in your IDE.
+Before committing your code, please run a code formatter. This can be achieved by running `dotnet format` in the command line, or using the `Format code` command in your IDE.
 
 We have adopted some cross-platform, compiler integrated analyzers. They can provide warnings when you are editing, building inside IDE or from command line, as-if they are provided by the compiler itself.