diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
index 3b234f648e..3e36dff5b4 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
@@ -5546,10 +5546,10 @@ C:\="DOS"</programlisting>
 	kernel /boot/loader
 	  </programlisting>
 
-	  <para>Where <literal>hd0,a</literal> points to your root parition
+	  <para>Where <literal>hd0,a</literal> points to your root partition
 	    on the first disk.  If you need to specify which slice number
 	    should be used, use something like this <literal>(hd0,2,a)</literal>.
-	    By default, if slice number is omitted, GRUB searches the
+	    By default, if the slice number is omitted, GRUB searches the
 	    first slice which has <literal>'a'</literal> partition.</para>
 	</answer>
       </qandaentry>