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Various grammar fixes taken from the patch submitted in the PR.

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PR:		docs/34547
Submitted by:	Jay Edwards <jayed@jayed.com>
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@ -228,14 +228,13 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Anyone who has an improvement and/or bug fix is free
<para>Anyone who has an improvement or bug fix is free
to submit their code and have it added to the source tree
(subject to one or two obvious provisions).</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>For those of our readers whose first language is not
English, it may be worth pointing out that the word
<para>It is worth pointing out that the word
<quote>free</quote> is being used in two ways here, one meaning
<quote>at no cost</quote>, the other meaning <quote>you can do
whatever you like</quote>. Apart from one or two things you
@ -257,16 +256,15 @@
released in &rel.current.date;. This is also the latest
<emphasis>STABLE</emphasis> version.</para>
<para>Briefly explained, <emphasis>-STABLE</emphasis> is aimed
at the ISP or other corporate user who wants stability and a
<para>Briefly, <emphasis>-STABLE</emphasis> is aimed
at the ISP, corporate user, or any user who wants stability and a
low change count over the wizzy new features of the latest
<emphasis>-CURRENT</emphasis> snapshot. Releases can come
from either branch, but you should only use
<emphasis>-CURRENT</emphasis> if you are sure that you are
prepared for its increased volatility (relative to
from either branch, but <emphasis>-CURRENT</emphasis>
should only be used if you are prepared for its increased volatility (relative to
<emphasis>-STABLE</emphasis>, that is).</para>
<para>Releases are only made <link linkend="release-freq">every
<para>Releases are made <link linkend="release-freq">every
few months</link>. While many people stay more up-to-date with
the FreeBSD sources (see the questions on <link
linkend="current">FreeBSD-CURRENT</link> and <link
@ -302,7 +300,7 @@
analyze any problems and only report them if they are deemed
to be mistakes rather than <quote>glitches</quote>. Questions
such as <quote>make world produces some error about
groups</quote> on the -CURRENT mailing list are sometimes
groups</quote> on the -CURRENT mailing list may be
treated with contempt.</para>
<para>Every day, <ulink
@ -320,7 +318,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>To give people who would like to run -CURRENT or
-STABLE but who do not have the time and/or bandwidth to
-STABLE but who do not have the time or bandwidth to
follow it on a day-to-day basis an easy way of
bootstrapping it onto their systems.</para>
</listitem>