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 ### 4.2 Negative Lookahead
 
 Negative lookahead is used when we need to get all matches from input string
-that are not followed by a pattern. Negative lookahead defined same as we define
+that are not followed by a pattern. Negative lookahead is defined same as we define
 positive lookahead but the only difference is instead of equal `=` character we
 use negation `!` character i.e. `(?!...)`. Let's take a look at the following
 regular expression `(T|t)he(?!\sfat)` which means: get all `The` or `the` words