diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
index 8de8d28ce3..d75f802de2 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
@@ -6530,8 +6530,7 @@ options    SYSVMSG          # enable for messaging</programlisting>
 
           <para>Pages are most often written to disk (sort of a VM
             sync) when they are in the inactive state, but active
-            pages can also be synced (but requires the
-            availability of certain CPU features.) This depends upon
+            pages can also be synced.  This depends upon
             the CPU tracking of the modified bit being available,
             and in certain situations there can be an advantage for a
             block of VM pages to be synced, whether they are active or
@@ -6547,8 +6546,7 @@ options    SYSVMSG          # enable for messaging</programlisting>
             level.</para>
 
           <para>There are some other flags (e.g., busy flag or busy
-            count) that might modify some of the rules that I
-            described.</para>
+            count) that might modify some of the described rules.</para>
         </answer>
       </qandaentry>