diff --git a/appendixa/fileutils-shortdesc.xml b/appendixa/fileutils-shortdesc.xml
index d0e0f6cfd..4a99f1b7c 100644
--- a/appendixa/fileutils-shortdesc.xml
+++ b/appendixa/fileutils-shortdesc.xml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 <para>Last checked against version &fileutils-contversion;.</para>
 
 <para>Fileutils is a package containing basic file manipulation programs.
-Including are programs to list directories, create directories, update
+Included are programs to list directories, create directories, update
 timestamps, change permissions and so forth.</para>
 
 <para>Fileutils installs the following files:</para>
diff --git a/appendixa/gzip-shortdesc.xml b/appendixa/gzip-shortdesc.xml
index 109144cb9..38e3cf3d5 100644
--- a/appendixa/gzip-shortdesc.xml
+++ b/appendixa/gzip-shortdesc.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 <para>Last checked against version &gzip-contversion;.</para>
 
-<para>The gzip package contains program to compress and decompress files
+<para>The gzip package contains programs to compress and decompress files
 using the Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77).</para>
 
 <para>Gzip installs the following:</para>
diff --git a/chapter05/bash-inst.xml b/chapter05/bash-inst.xml
index 612bc973f..9adf0c786 100644
--- a/chapter05/bash-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter05/bash-inst.xml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ following command:</para>
 
 <itemizedlist>
 <listitem><para><userinput>--enable-static-link:</userinput> This option
-caused the <userinput>bash</userinput> program to be statically
+causes the <userinput>bash</userinput> program to be statically
 linked.</para></listitem>
 
 <listitem><para><userinput>--prefix=$LFS/static</userinput> This option
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ installs all of Bash's files under the $LFS/static directory, which becomes
 the /static directory when chroot'ed or reboot'ed into
 LFS.</para></listitem>
 
-<listitem><para><userinput>--with-curses:</userinput> This option caused
+<listitem><para><userinput>--with-curses:</userinput> This option causes
 bash to be linked against the curses library instead of the default termcap
 library which is being phased out and has become obsolete. Note, on most
 all Linux systems, the curses library is provided by the Ncurses
diff --git a/chapter05/diffutils-inst.xml b/chapter05/diffutils-inst.xml
index 9110d0918..6f707eb6a 100644
--- a/chapter05/diffutils-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter05/diffutils-inst.xml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 common way to tell a package that all programs should be statically linked.
 This way the <emphasis>LDFLAGS</emphasis> environment variable is set but
 only in the subshell that the <filename>configure</filename> script runs
-in. When <userinput>configure</userinput> is done its job, the
+in. When <userinput>configure</userinput> has done its job, the
 <emphasis>LDFLAGS</emphasis> variable won't exist
 anymore.</para></listitem>