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 <a name="route-caching"></a>
 ## Route Caching
 
-If your application is exclusively using controller based routes, you may take advantage of Laravel's route cache. Using the route cache will drastically decrease the amount of time it take to register all of your application's routes. In some cases, your route registration may even be up to 100x faster! To generate a route cache, just execute the `route:cache` Artisan command:
+If your application is exclusively using controller based routes, you may take advantage of Laravel's route cache. Using the route cache will drastically decrease the amount of time it takes to register all of your application's routes. In some cases, your route registration may even be up to 100x faster! To generate a route cache, just execute the `route:cache` Artisan command:
 
     php artisan route:cache