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 ### Stretching elements
-Sometimes it's desirable to have an element, like an image or video, stretch to consume as much space as possible within a given slide. This can be done by adding the ```.stretch``` class to an element as seen below.
+Sometimes it's desirable to have an element, like an image or video, stretch to consume as much space as possible within a given slide. This can be done by adding the ```.stretch``` class to an element as seen below:
 
 ```html
 <section>
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 Limitations:
-- Only direct decendents of a slide section can be stretched
-- Only one descendent per slide section can be stretched
+- Only direct descendants of a slide section can be stretched
+- Only one descendant per slide section can be stretched
 
 
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