diff --git a/chapter06/shadow.xml b/chapter06/shadow.xml
index 6e8038adb..da6ea1623 100644
--- a/chapter06/shadow.xml
+++ b/chapter06/shadow.xml
@@ -35,8 +35,7 @@ Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed</seg></seglistitem>
 
 <screen><userinput>./configure --libdir=/lib --enable-shared</userinput></screen>
 
-<para>Remove the installation of the <command>groups</command> program, and its man page as
-Coreutils provides a better version:</para>
+<para>Remove the installation of the <command>groups</command> program and its man page, as Coreutils provides a better version:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>sed -i 's/groups$(EXEEXT) //' src/Makefile
 sed -i '/groups/d' man/Makefile</userinput></screen>
diff --git a/chapter06/vim.xml b/chapter06/vim.xml
index 82d20bb2b..dd8940c9f 100644
--- a/chapter06/vim.xml
+++ b/chapter06/vim.xml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ for suggested installation instructions.</para>
 <para>First, unpack both
 <filename>vim-&vim-version;.tar.bz2</filename> and (optionally)
 <filename>vim-&vim-version;-lang.tar.gz</filename> archives into the
-same directory. Then, change the default locations of the
+same directory. Then, change the default location of the
 <filename>vimrc</filename> configuration file to <filename
 class="directory">/etc</filename>:</para>