diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot/chapter.sgml
index 411f8e95e0..d1f4d9c1a3 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot/chapter.sgml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <!--
      The FreeBSD Documentation Project
 
-     $FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot/chapter.sgml,v 1.18 2001/08/01 23:15:48 nik Exp $
+     $FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot/chapter.sgml,v 1.19 2001/08/04 04:07:17 jim Exp $
 -->
 
 <chapter id="boot">
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ boot:</screen>
 	console and for disks, and figure out what disk it is
 	booting from.  It will set variables accordingly, and then
 	the interpreter is started, and the easy-to-use commands are
-	explained to it.</para>
+	passed to it.</para>
       <indexterm><primary>loader</primary></indexterm>
       <indexterm><primary>loader configuration</primary></indexterm>
 
@@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ boot:</screen>
       <para>This mode can be reached through the <link
 	  linkend="boot-autoreboot">automatic reboot
 	  sequence</link>, or by the user booting with the
-	<option>-s</option> or setting the
+	<option>-s</option> option or setting the
 	<envar>boot_single</envar> variable in
 	<command>loader</command>.</para>
 
@@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ boot:</screen>
 	from <link linkend="boot-multiuser">multi-user
 	  mode</link>.</para>
 
-      <para>If the system console <literal>console</literal> is set
+      <para>If the system <literal>console</literal> is set
 	to <literal>insecure</literal> in
 	<filename>/etc/ttys</filename>, then the system prompts for
 	the root password before initiating single-user mode.</para>
@@ -625,7 +625,7 @@ console none                            unknown off insecure</programlisting>
 	  <filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename>, and then proceeds to
 	  mount the system filesystems mentioned in
 	  <filename>/etc/fstab</filename>, start up networking
-	  services, starts up miscellaneous system daemons, and
+	  services, start up miscellaneous system daemons, and
 	  finally runs the startup scripts of locally installed
 	  packages.</para>