diff --git a/appendixa/gawk-dep.xml b/appendixa/gawk-dep.xml
index 7931c99b1..b2be670bc 100644
--- a/appendixa/gawk-dep.xml
+++ b/appendixa/gawk-dep.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 <para>Gawk-&gawk-depversion; needs the following to be installed:</para>
 
 <literallayout>
-.o dependencies checked yet
+(No dependencies checked yet.)
 </literallayout>
 
 </sect2>
diff --git a/appendixa/utillinux-desc.xml b/appendixa/utillinux-desc.xml
index df5e68437..80ae032c1 100644
--- a/appendixa/utillinux-desc.xml
+++ b/appendixa/utillinux-desc.xml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ line.</para></sect4>
 <para>cal displays a simple calender.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>cfdisk</title>
-<para>cfdisk is an libncurses based disk partition table 
+<para>cfdisk is a libncurses based disk partition table
 manipulator.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>chkdupexe</title>
diff --git a/chapter07/usage.xml b/chapter07/usage.xml
index b2fe9b8f4..00bbacd32 100644
--- a/chapter07/usage.xml
+++ b/chapter07/usage.xml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ command an alias to init 0.</para>
 
 <para>There are a number of directories under /etc/rc.d that look like
 like rc?.d where ? is the number of the runlevel and rcsysinit.d which
-contain a number of symbolic links. Some begin with an K, the others
+contain a number of symbolic links. Some begin with a K, the others
 begin with an S, and all of them have two numbers following the initial
 letter. The K means to stop (kill) a service, and the S means to start a
 service. The numbers determine the order in which the scripts are run,