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 ## <a name="concepts"></a>Main Concepts and Components
 
-_Caches_ are an abstraction that describe a node in an Apache Geode distributed
+_Caches_ are an abstraction that describes a node in an Apache Geode distributed
 system.
 
 Within each cache, you define data _regions_. Data regions are analogous to