diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml
index d7251c4405..b9e4c4c99f 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ You need a Passphrase to protect your secret key.</screen>
 
     <note>
       <para>Unless the Kerberos-authenticated services
-	of the &os;.org cluster was used previously,
+	of the &os;.org cluster have been used previously,
 	<errorname>Client unknown</errorname> will be shown.  This
 	error means that the
 	<command>ssh kpasswd.freebsd.org</command> method shown above
@@ -1168,7 +1168,7 @@ You need a Passphrase to protect your secret key.</screen>
 
 	<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>svn copy svn+ssh://repo.freebsd.org/base/head svn+ssh://repo.freebsd.org/base/stable/8</userinput></screen>
 
-	<para>This is equivalent to this set of commands
+	<para>This is equivalent to these commands
 	  which take minutes and hours as opposed to seconds,
 	  depending on your network connection:</para>
 
@@ -1462,7 +1462,7 @@ You need a Passphrase to protect your secret key.</screen>
 	  <para>Because of the mergeinfo propagation issues described
 	    earlier, it is very important to never merge changes
 	    into a sparse working copy.  Always use a full
-	    checkout of the branch being merge into.  For instance,
+	    checkout of the branch being merged into.  For instance,
 	    when merging from HEAD to 7, use a full checkout
 	    of stable/7:</para>