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 ### Hint
 
-The overlay will gets an absolute position, so if your caller element has a position of *static*, busy-load will turn it to *relative*.
+The overlay gets an absolute position, so if your caller element has a position of *static*, busy-load will turn it to *relative*.
 
 ## Installation