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 ## ES6
 
-Before we even launched React publicly, members of the team were talking about how we could leverage ES6, namely classes`, to improve the experience of creating React components. Calling `React.createClass(...)` isn't great. We don't quite have the right answer here yet, but we're close. We want to make sure we make this as simple as possible. It could look like this:
+Before we even launched React publicly, members of the team were talking about how we could leverage ES6, namely classes, to improve the experience of creating React components. Calling `React.createClass(...)` isn't great. We don't quite have the right answer here yet, but we're close. We want to make sure we make this as simple as possible. It could look like this:
 
 ```js
 class MyComponent extends React.Component {