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 An alternative to manual and scope-based memory management is automatic memory
 management:
 
-* The programmer never calls allocates or deallocates memory explicitly.
+* The programmer never allocates or deallocates memory explicitly.
 * A garbage collector finds unused memory and deallocates it for the programmer.
 
 ## Java Example