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 Contracts in Solidity are similar to classes in object-oriented languages. They
-contain persistent data in state variables and functions that can modify these
+contain persistent data in state variables, and functions that can modify these
 variables. Calling a function on a different contract (instance) will perform
-an EVM function call and thus switch the context such that state variables are
+an EVM function call and thus switch the context such that state variables
+in the calling contract are
 inaccessible. A contract and its functions need to be called for anything to happen.
 There is no "cron" concept in Ethereum to call a function at a particular event automatically.