diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml
index 797d988546..4f6626aa91 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml
@@ -2836,7 +2836,7 @@ Password:</screen>
 
 	  <para>
 	    Install the new drive to the system as explained in <xref
-	    linkend="disks-adding">. For the purposes of this example, the
+	    linkend="disks-adding">. For the purposes of this example,
 	    a new hard drive partition has been added as
 	    <filename>/dev/ad4s1c</filename>. A drive,
 	    <filename>/dev/ad0s1</filename>, which holds the normal
@@ -2889,7 +2889,7 @@ sector_size     =       2048
 [...]
 </programlisting>
 
-	  <para>&man.gbde.8; will twice ask you to type the passphrase that
+	  <para>&man.gbde.8; will ask you twice to type the passphrase that
 	    should be used to secure the data. The passphrase must be the
 	    same both times. <application>gbde's</application> ability to
 	    protect your data depends entirely on the quality of the