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 a single built-in type, called ``instance``.
 
 New-style classes were introduced in Python 2.2 to unify classes and types.  A
-new-style class neither more nor less than a user-defined type.  If *x* is an
+new-style class is neither more nor less than a user-defined type.  If *x* is an
 instance of a new-style class, then ``type(x)`` is the same as ``x.__class__``.
 
 The major motivation for introducing new-style classes is to provide a unified