diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml
index febbd3eca8..eaba24b76f 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@
       <emphasis>and</emphasis> execute permissions to the directory
       containing the file.</para>
 
-    <para>There are more permissions, but they are primarily used in
+    <para>There are more permission bits, but they are primarily used in
       special circumstances such as setuid binaries and sticky
       directories.  If you want more information on file permissions and
       how to set them, be sure to look at the &man.chmod.1; man
@@ -1069,7 +1069,7 @@ Swap: 256M Total, 38M Used, 217M Free, 15% Inuse
       fill in the rest of the filename for you.</para>
     <indexterm><primary>environment variables</primary></indexterm>
 
-    <para>Another function of the shell is environment variables.
+    <para>Another feature of the shell is the use of environment variables.
       Environment variables are a variable key pair stored in the shell's
       environment space.  This space can be read by any program invoked by
       the shell, and thus contains a lot of program configuration.  Here
@@ -1151,13 +1151,13 @@ Swap: 256M Total, 38M Used, 217M Free, 15% Inuse
     </informaltable>
 
     <indexterm><primary>Bourne shells</primary></indexterm>
-    <para>To view or set an environment variable differs somewhat from
+    <para>To set an environment variable differs somewhat from
       shell to shell.  For example, in the C-Style shells such as
       <command>tcsh</command> and <command>csh</command>, you would use
-      <command>setenv</command> to set and view environment variables.
+      <command>setenv</command> to set environment variables.
       Under Bourne shells such as <command>sh</command> and
-      <command>bash</command>, you would use <command>set</command> and
-      <command>export</command> to view and set your current environment
+      <command>bash</command>, you would use
+      <command>export</command> to set your current environment
       variables.  For example, to set or modify the
       <envar>EDITOR</envar> environment variable, under <command>csh</command> or 
       <command>tcsh</command> a
@@ -1180,7 +1180,7 @@ Swap: 256M Total, 38M Used, 217M Free, 15% Inuse
       as special representations of data.  The most common one is the
       <literal>*</literal> character, which represents any number of
       characters in a filename.  These special meta-characters can be used
-      to do file name globing.  For example, typing in
+      to do filename globbing.  For example, typing in
       <command>echo *</command> is almost the same as typing in
       <command>ls</command> because the shell takes all the files that
       match <literal>*</literal> and puts them on the command line for
@@ -1342,7 +1342,7 @@ Swap: 256M Total, 38M Used, 217M Free, 15% Inuse
   </sect1>
 
   <sect1>
-    <title>For More Information...</title>
+    <title>For More Information</title>
 
     <sect2 id="basics-man">
       <title>Manual Pages</title>
@@ -1406,7 +1406,7 @@ Swap: 256M Total, 38M Used, 217M Free, 15% Inuse
 	section of the online manual.  For example, there is a
 	<command>chmod</command> user command and a
 	<function>chmod()</function> system call.  In this case, you can
-	tell the man command which one you want by specifying the
+	tell the <command>man</command> command which one you want by specifying the
 	section:</para>
 
       <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>man 1 chmod</userinput></screen>