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 ### Running tests serially
 
-By default tests are run concurrently, which is awesome. Sometimes though you have to write tests that cannot run concurrently.
-
-In these rare cases you can use the `.serial` modifier. It will force those tests to run serially *before* the concurrent ones.
+Tests are run concurrently by default, however, sometimes you have to write tests that cannot run concurrently. In these rare cases you can use the `.serial` modifier. It will force those tests to run serially *before* the concurrent ones.
 
 ```js
 test.serial(t => {