diff --git a/appendixa/bison-desc.xml b/appendixa/bison-desc.xml
index b576186ed..0b2d3e302 100644
--- a/appendixa/bison-desc.xml
+++ b/appendixa/bison-desc.xml
@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ Given the string :
 </literallayout></blockquote>
 
 <para>
-You can easily come to the result 7. Why ? Because of the structure. You
-know
+A human can easily come to the result 7. Why? Because of the structure. 
+Our brain knows
 how to interpretet the string. The computer doesn't know that and Bison
 is a
 tool to help it understand by presenting the string in the following way
diff --git a/chapter06/shadowpwd-exp.xml b/chapter06/shadowpwd-exp.xml
index 6db3fe8d4..42d3c5fba 100644
--- a/chapter06/shadowpwd-exp.xml
+++ b/chapter06/shadowpwd-exp.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 <userinput>cp limits login.access and others:</userinput> These files
 were not installed during the installation of the package so we copy
 them manually as those files are used to configure authentication
-details on your system.
+details on the system.
 </para>
 
 </sect2>
diff --git a/chapter07/usage.xml b/chapter07/usage.xml
index c236bfec0..c358bd980 100644
--- a/chapter07/usage.xml
+++ b/chapter07/usage.xml
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ services get killed and others get started.
 
 <para>
 The real scripts are in /etc/init.d. They do all the work, and the
-symlinks all point to them. You'll note that killing links and starting 
+symlinks all point to them. Killing links and starting 
 links point to the same script in /etc/init.d. That's because the scripts 
 can be called with different parameters like start, stop, restart, reload, 
 status. When a K link is encountered, the appropriate script is run with