diff --git a/aip/general/0009.md b/aip/general/0009.md
index a48450ab69..637562dc6d 100644
--- a/aip/general/0009.md
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@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ requests and Protocol Buffers package names.
 
 ### Client
 
-Clients are programs that perform a specific tasks by calling an API or generic
+Clients are programs that perform specific tasks by calling an API or generic
 tools, such as CLIs, that expose the API in a user-accessible fashion or operate
 on resource data at rest.
 
@@ -158,4 +158,4 @@ organizations separate from those that consume them.
 
 - **2023-07-24**: Rename IaC to Declarative Clients
 - **2023-04-01**: Adding definition of IaC
-- **2023-03-24**: Reformatting content to include anchor links.
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+- **2023-03-24**: Reformatting content to include anchor links.