diff --git a/chapter07/chroot.xml b/chapter07/chroot.xml
index 2ebdfd75e..021ab0fb6 100644
--- a/chapter07/chroot.xml
+++ b/chapter07/chroot.xml
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ readonly IGNOREEOF=1000</userinput></screen>
 bash: no job control in this shell</computeroutput></screen>
 
     <para>This is normal because the shell is not assigned with a
-    controlling terminal yet.  Now set up controlling terminal and
-    environment variables:</para>
+    controlling terminal yet.  Now set up the controlling terminal and
+    some environment variables:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>exec setsid -c /usr/bin/env -i  \
     HOME=/root                  \
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ bash: no job control in this shell</computeroutput></screen>
     TESTSUITEFLAGS="-j<replaceable>$(nproc)</replaceable>" \
     /bin/bash --login</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>The command replace the current shell process with a new shell
+    <para>The command replaces the current shell process with a new shell
     process, with controlling terminal set up.</para>
 
   <para>
diff --git a/chapter07/introduction.xml b/chapter07/introduction.xml
index c1d9a1317..73aff97d8 100644
--- a/chapter07/introduction.xml
+++ b/chapter07/introduction.xml
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
   <para>All commands in this and following chapters are run as &root; on the
   target system, fortunately without access to the host system.
   Be careful anyway, as if the storage devices of your target system already
-  contain some important data, it's possible to destroy them with bad
+  contains some important data, it's possible to destroy them with bad
   commands.</para>
 
 </sect1>
diff --git a/chapter07/kernfs.xml b/chapter07/kernfs.xml
index afe5e83b1..5f46c62d1 100644
--- a/chapter07/kernfs.xml
+++ b/chapter07/kernfs.xml
@@ -72,8 +72,9 @@ mount -vt tmpfs tmpfs /dev/shm -o nosuid,nodev</userinput></screen>
   <sect2 id="ch-tools-devadjust">
     <title>Adjusting devtmpfs</title>
 
-    <para>Now <systemitem class='filesystem'>proc</systemitem> filesystem
-    is mounted, we can replace the device nodes for standard I/O streams
+    <para>Now with the
+    <systemitem class='filesystem'>proc</systemitem> filesystem
+    mounted, we can replace the device nodes for standard I/O streams
     with symlinks to pseudo files in
     <filename class="directory">/proc/self/fd</filename> (which are symlinks
     to the files connected to the standard I/O streams for the current