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 ## Creating a Serializer class
 
-The first thing we need to get started on our Web API is provide a way of serializing and deserializing the snippet instances into representations such as `json`.  We can do this by declaring serializers that work very similar to Django's forms.  Create a file in the `snippets` directory named `serializers.py` and add the following.
+The first thing we need to get started on our Web API is to provide a way of serializing and deserializing the snippet instances into representations such as `json`.  We can do this by declaring serializers that work very similar to Django's forms.  Create a file in the `snippets` directory named `serializers.py` and add the following.
 
     from django.forms import widgets
     from rest_framework import serializers