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 Suppose you have a folder with several .v files in it, where one of them
 contains your `main()` function, and the other files have other helper 
-functions. The may be organized by topic, but still *not yet* structured
+functions. They may be organized by topic, but still *not yet* structured
 enough to be their own separate reusable modules, and you want to compile
 them all into one program.