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 ### Mouse movements
 
-When you move the mouse cursor over a widget it will receive [MouseMove](../events/mouse_move.md) events which contain the coordinate of the mouse and information about what modified keys (++ctrl++, ++shift++ etc) are held down.
+When you move the mouse cursor over a widget it will receive [MouseMove](../events/mouse_move.md) events which contain the coordinate of the mouse and information about what modifier keys (++ctrl++, ++shift++ etc) are held down.
 
 The following example shows mouse movements being used to _attach_ a widget to the mouse cursor.