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 >Chapter 3. Preprocessor configurations</H1
 ><P
 >By default Cppcheck will check all preprocessor configurations
-    (except those that has #error in them). This is the recommended
+    (except those that have #error in them). This is the recommended
     behaviour.</P
 ><P
 >But if you want to manually limit the checking you can do so with
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     <title>Preprocessor configurations</title>
 
     <para>By default Cppcheck will check all preprocessor configurations
-    (except those that has #error in them). This is the recommended
+    (except those that have #error in them). This is the recommended
     behaviour.</para>
 
     <para>But if you want to manually limit the checking you can do so with