diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/cvs-freebsd/article.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/cvs-freebsd/article.sgml
index 7418d4bd8e..9bf5ea8111 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/cvs-freebsd/article.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/cvs-freebsd/article.sgml
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@
 &prompt.user; <userinput>cvs add *</userinput></screen>
 
         Note that you will probably get a few warnings about some directories
-        not being copied; this is normal, you don't need those.</para>
+        not being copied; this is normal, you do not need those.</para>
     </sect2>
 
     <sect2>
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@
             can edit this as you wish. More information about this file
             is available in the <application>CVS</application> manual.
             Note that the <literal>-t</literal> and <literal>-f</literal>
-            options don't work correctly with client/server
+            options do not work correctly with client/server
             <application>CVS</application>.</para>
         </listitem>
 
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@
             functionality, as parsing the log message is done by
             <filename>verifymsg</filename> and <filename>logcheck</filename>.
             This is because the <filename>editinfo</filename>
-            functionality doesn't work properly with remote commits, or ones
+            functionality does not work properly with remote commits, or ones
             that use the <literal>-m</literal> or <literal>-F</literal>
             options. You should not have to touch this file.</para>
         </listitem>
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@
             automatically <quote>unwrap</quote> binary files (see
             <filename>cvswrappers</filename>) on checkout. It is not used in
             the current FreeBSD setup because the functionality it hooks into
-            doesn't work well with remote commits. You should not have to
+            does not work well with remote commits. You should not have to
             touch this file.</para>
         </listitem>
 
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@
             automatically <quote>wrap</quote> binary files (see
             <filename>cvswrappers</filename>) on checkin. It is not used
             in the current FreeBSD setup because the functionality it
-            hooks into doesn't work well with remote commits. You should
+            hooks into does not work well with remote commits. You should
             not have to touch this file.</para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
@@ -444,7 +444,7 @@
                 <para><literal>$MAIL_BRANCH_HDR</literal> - if you want
                   to insert a header into each commit mail describing the
                   branch on which the commit was made, define this to match
-                  your setup. Or leave it empty if you don't want such a
+                  your setup. Or leave it empty if you do not want such a
                   header.</para>
               </listitem>