diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml
index a4f981b232..22c71ac9c0 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml
@@ -1432,8 +1432,8 @@ login:</screen>
 
       <screen>login:</screen>
 
-      <para>Type your username here.  For the sake of this example, let us
-	assume that your username is <username>john</username> and press
+      <para>For the sake of this example, let us assume that your username is
+	<username>john</username>.  Type <literal>john</literal> at this prompt and press
 	<keycap>Enter</keycap>.  You should then be presented with a prompt to
 	enter a <quote>password</quote>:</para>
 
@@ -1459,7 +1459,7 @@ Password:</screen>
 	can run dozens of programs at the same time.  This is where
 	<quote>virtual consoles</quote> can be very helpful.</para>
 
-      <para>FreeBSD can be configured to present you with many different,
+      <para>FreeBSD can be configured to present you with many different
 	virtual consoles.  You can switch from one of them to any other
 	virtual console by pressing a couple of keys on your keyboard.  Each
 	console has its own different output channel, and FreeBSD takes care
@@ -1484,7 +1484,7 @@ Password:</screen>
       <para>As you are switching from one console to the next, FreeBSD takes
 	care of saving and restoring the screen output.  The result is an
 	<quote>illusion</quote> of having multiple <quote>virtual</quote>
-	pairs of screens and keyboards that you can use to type commands for
+	screens and keyboards that you can use to type commands for
 	FreeBSD to run.  The programs that you launch on one virtual console
 	do not stop running when that console is not visible.  They continue
 	running when you have switched to a different virtual console.</para>
@@ -1523,9 +1523,7 @@ ttyv8   "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon"  xterm   off secure</programlisting>
 
       <para>For a detailed description of every column in this file and all
 	the options you can use to set things up for the virtual consoles,
-	consult the &man.ttys.5; manual page:</para>
-
-      <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>man 5 ttys</userinput></screen>
+	consult the &man.ttys.5; manual page.</para>
     </sect2>
 
     <sect2 id="consoles-singleuser">