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@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ The options for encode are:
 * `force_utf8` - Force strings to encode as UTF-8 by fixing broken
   surrogate pairs and/or using the replacement character to remove
   broken UTF-8 sequences in data.
-* `use_nil` - Encode's the atom `nil` as `null`.
+* `use_nil` - Encodes the atom `nil` as `null`.
 * `escape_forward_slashes` - Escapes the `/` character which can be
   useful when encoding URLs in some cases.
 * `{bytes_per_red, N}` - Refer to the decode options