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 Widgets are self-contained components responsible for generating the output for a portion of the screen. Widgets respond to events in much the same way as the App. Most apps that do anything interesting will contain at least one (and probably many) widgets which together form a User Interface.
 
-Widgets can be as simple as a piece of text, a button, or a fully-fledge component like a text editor or file browser (which may contain widgets of their own).
+Widgets can be as simple as a piece of text, a button, or a fully-fledged component like a text editor or file browser (which may contain widgets of their own).
 
 ### Composing