diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
index 935b367667..b4d8623119 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
@@ -1199,7 +1199,7 @@ File: +DESC (ignored)</screen>
             card is needed.</para>
 
           <para>See also 
-            <xref linkend="hardware"></para>
+            <xref linkend="hardware">.</para>
 
         </answer>
       </qandaentry>
@@ -1409,7 +1409,7 @@ File: +DESC (ignored)</screen>
 					  url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=200565+208320+/usr/local/www/db/text/2001/freebsd-mobile/20010429.freebsd-mobile">This message</ulink>
 	    from Jacques Vidrine to the &a.mobile; describes a procedure
             which may work if your newer IBM laptop does not boot FreeBSD
-            properly, and you can upgrade or downgrade the BIOS..</para>
+            properly, and you can upgrade or downgrade the BIOS.</para>
 	
           <para>If you have an earlier BIOS, and upgrading is not an option a
             workaround is to install FreeBSD, change the partition ID FreeBSD
@@ -1829,12 +1829,12 @@ sectors/track: 63</screen>
             except for the kernel-configuration program &man.config.8;.
             With the exception of the kernel sources, our build structure
             is set up so that you can read-only mount the sources from
-            elsewhere via NFS and still be able to make new binaries.
-            (Because of the kernel-source restriction, we recommend that
+            elsewhere via NFS and still be able to make new binaries
+            (due to the kernel-source restriction, we recommend that
             you not mount this on <filename>/usr/src</filename> directly,
             but rather in some other location with appropriate symbolic
             links to duplicate the top-level structure of the source
-            tree.)</para>
+            tree).</para>
 
           <para>Having the sources on-line and knowing how to build a
             system with them will make it much easier for you to upgrade