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 [the jMonkeyEngine (JME) game engine][jme]
 and provides a library to support driving simulations.
 
-It contains 5 sub-projects:
+It contains 5 subprojects:
 
 1. MavLibrary: the MaVehicles library
 2. MavDemo1: a demo application with a [Lemur]-based GUI