diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index b3526641e..6cb34ee97 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 <!ENTITY releasedate     "August 26th, 2021">
 <!ENTITY copyrightdate   "1999-2021">
 -->
-<!-- jhalfs needs a literal dash, not &ndash; -->
 
 <![ %sysv; [
 <!ENTITY short-version   "svn">  <!-- Used below in &blfs-book;
diff --git a/part3intro/toolchaintechnotes.xml b/part3intro/toolchaintechnotes.xml
index ed5afc03b..72e3ab703 100644
--- a/part3intro/toolchaintechnotes.xml
+++ b/part3intro/toolchaintechnotes.xml
@@ -38,9 +38,9 @@
     <title>About Cross-Compilation</title>
 
     <para>Cross-compilation involves some concepts that deserve a section on
-    their own. Although this section may be omitted in a first reading, it
-    is strongly suggested to come back to it later in order to get a full
-    grasp of the build process.</para>
+    their own. Although this section may be omitted in a first reading, 
+    coming back to it later will be beneficial to your full understanding of 
+    the process.</para>
 
     <para>Let us first define some terms used in this context:</para>
 
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
 
     <para>As an example, let us imagine the following scenario (sometimes
     referred to as <quote>Canadian Cross</quote>): we may have a
-    compiler on a slow machine only, let's call the machine A, and the compiler
+    compiler on a slow machine only, let's call it machine A, and the compiler
     ccA. We may have also a fast machine (B), but with no compiler, and we may
     want to produce code for another slow machine (C). To build a
     compiler for machine C, we would have three stages:</para>
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@
       cpu-vendor-kernel-os referred to as the machine triplet. An astute
       reader may wonder why a <quote>triplet</quote> refers to a four component
       name. The reason is history: initially, three component names were enough
-      to designate unambiguously a machine, but with new machines and systems
+      to designate a machine unambiguously, but with new machines and systems
       appearing, that proved insufficient. The word <quote>triplet</quote>
       remained. A simple way to determine your machine triplet is to run
       the <command>config.guess</command>
@@ -156,9 +156,9 @@
       linker <command>ld</command> that is part of binutils). The dynamic linker
       provided by Glibc finds and loads the shared libraries needed by a
       program, prepares the program to run, and then runs it. The name of the
-      dynamic linker for a 32-bit Intel machine will be <filename
-      class="libraryfile">ld-linux.so.2</filename> (<filename
-      class="libraryfile">ld-linux-x86-64.so.2</filename> for 64-bit systems). A
+      dynamic linker for a 32-bit Intel machine is <filename
+      class="libraryfile">ld-linux.so.2</filename> and is<filename
+      class="libraryfile">ld-linux-x86-64.so.2</filename> for 64-bit systems. A
       sure-fire way to determine the name of the dynamic linker is to inspect a
       random binary from the host system by running: <userinput>readelf -l
       &lt;name of binary&gt; | grep interpreter</userinput> and noting the
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@
       tree.</para>
     </note>
 
-    <para>In order to fake a cross compilation, the name of the host triplet
+    <para>In order to fake a cross compilation in LFS, the name of the host triplet
     is slightly adjusted by changing the &quot;vendor&quot; field in the
     <envar>LFS_TGT</envar> variable. We also use the
     <parameter>--with-sysroot</parameter> option when building the cross linker and
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ checking what linker to use... /mnt/lfs/tools/i686-lfs-linux-gnu/bin/ld</compute
     always use the compiler relating to the <parameter>--host</parameter>
     parameter passed to its configure script; e.g. in our case, the compiler
     will be <command>$LFS_TGT-gcc</command>. The binary tools and kernel
-    headers can be a bit more complicated. Therefore, take no risks and use
+    headers can be a bit more complicated. Therefore, we take no risks and use
     the available configure switches to enforce the correct selections. After
     the run of <command>configure</command>, check the contents of the
     <filename>config.make</filename> file in the <filename