From b938cb902c3b5bca807a94b277672c64d6767886 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 07:11:12 +0200
Subject: doc: correct punctuation and improve typography in documentation

---
 man/systemd.time.xml | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

(limited to 'man/systemd.time.xml')

diff --git a/man/systemd.time.xml b/man/systemd.time.xml
index df7e1ecfb9..c96e19e13f 100644
--- a/man/systemd.time.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.time.xml
@@ -117,11 +117,11 @@
   <refsect1>
     <title>Parsing Timestamps</title>
 
-    <para>When parsing systemd will accept a similar syntax, but
+    <para>When parsing, systemd will accept a similar syntax, but
     expects no timezone specification, unless it is given as the
-    literal string "UTC". In this case the time is considered in UTC,
+    literal string "UTC". In this case, the time is considered in UTC,
     otherwise in the local timezone. The weekday specification is
-    optional, but when the weekday is specified it must either be in
+    optional, but when the weekday is specified, it must either be in
     the abbreviated (<literal>Wed</literal>) or non-abbreviated
     (<literal>Wednesday</literal>) English language form (case does
     not matter), and is not subject to the locale choice of the user.
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@
     used to refer to the current time (or of the invocation of the
     command that is currently executed). <literal>today</literal>,
     <literal>yesterday</literal>, <literal>tomorrow</literal> refer to
-    00:00:00 of the current day, the day before or the next day,
+    00:00:00 of the current day, the day before, or the next day,
     respectively.</para>
 
     <para>When parsing, systemd will also accept relative time
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@
     <para>Note that timestamps printed by systemd will not be parsed
     correctly by systemd, as the timezone specification is not
     accepted, and printing timestamps is subject to locale settings
-    for the weekday while parsing only accepts English weekday
+    for the weekday, while parsing only accepts English weekday
     names.</para>
 
     <para>In some cases, systemd will display a relative timestamp
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@
     <literal>Mon *-*-* 00:00:00</literal>,
     <literal>*-01-01 00:00:00</literal>,
     <literal>*-01,04,07,10-01 00:00:00</literal> and
-    <literal>*-01,07-01 00:00:00</literal> respectively.
+    <literal>*-01,07-01 00:00:00</literal>, respectively.
     </para>
 
     <para>Examples for valid timestamps and their
-- 
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From a8eaaee72a2f06e0fb64fb71de3b71ecba31dafb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 07:11:37 +0200
Subject: doc: correct orthography, word forms and missing/extraneous words

---
 NEWS                                      | 18 ++++----
 TODO                                      |  2 +-
 man/bootctl.xml                           |  2 +-
 man/busctl.xml                            | 12 ++---
 man/coredump.conf.xml                     |  2 +-
 man/crypttab.xml                          |  4 +-
 man/custom-html.xsl                       |  2 +-
 man/file-hierarchy.xml                    | 12 ++---
 man/hwdb.xml                              |  4 +-
 man/journalctl.xml                        | 14 +++---
 man/journald.conf.xml                     | 14 +++---
 man/libudev.xml                           |  2 +-
 man/logind.conf.xml                       |  4 +-
 man/machinectl.xml                        | 30 ++++++-------
 man/networkctl.xml                        |  2 +-
 man/nss-myhostname.xml                    |  2 +-
 man/nss-mymachines.xml                    |  2 +-
 man/resolved.conf.xml                     |  6 +--
 man/sd-bus-errors.xml                     |  2 +-
 man/sd_bus_creds_get_pid.xml              | 28 ++++++------
 man/sd_bus_creds_new_from_pid.xml         | 12 ++---
 man/sd_bus_default.xml                    |  8 ++--
 man/sd_bus_error.xml                      |  8 ++--
 man/sd_bus_error_add_map.xml              |  2 +-
 man/sd_bus_message_append_array.xml       |  4 +-
 man/sd_bus_message_get_monotonic_usec.xml |  2 +-
 man/sd_bus_negotiate_fds.xml              |  4 +-
 man/sd_bus_path_encode.xml                |  2 +-
 man/sd_event_add_child.xml                |  2 +-
 man/sd_event_add_defer.xml                |  2 +-
 man/sd_event_add_signal.xml               |  4 +-
 man/sd_event_run.xml                      |  8 ++--
 man/sd_event_set_name.xml                 |  4 +-
 man/sd_event_wait.xml                     |  8 ++--
 man/sd_listen_fds.xml                     |  2 +-
 man/sd_notify.xml                         |  2 +-
 man/sd_pid_get_session.xml                |  6 +--
 man/sd_seat_get_active.xml                |  2 +-
 man/sd_session_is_active.xml              |  2 +-
 man/sd_uid_get_state.xml                  |  2 +-
 man/standard-conf.xml                     |  2 +-
 man/sysctl.d.xml                          |  8 ++--
 man/systemctl.xml                         | 22 ++++-----
 man/systemd-ask-password.xml              |  4 +-
 man/systemd-backlight@.service.xml        |  4 +-
 man/systemd-cgtop.xml                     |  4 +-
 man/systemd-escape.xml                    |  6 +--
 man/systemd-firstboot.xml                 |  8 ++--
 man/systemd-fsck@.service.xml             |  4 +-
 man/systemd-hwdb.xml                      |  2 +-
 man/systemd-journald.service.xml          |  2 +-
 man/systemd-machine-id-commit.service.xml |  2 +-
 man/systemd-machine-id-setup.xml          |  2 +-
 man/systemd-notify.xml                    |  2 +-
 man/systemd-nspawn.xml                    | 14 +++---
 man/systemd-resolved.service.xml          |  2 +-
 man/systemd-run.xml                       |  2 +-
 man/systemd-sysusers.xml                  |  2 +-
 man/systemd-sysv-generator.xml            |  4 +-
 man/systemd-timesyncd.service.xml         |  2 +-
 man/systemd-update-done.service.xml       |  2 +-
 man/systemd.automount.xml                 |  2 +-
 man/systemd.exec.xml                      |  6 +--
 man/systemd.generator.xml                 |  8 ++--
 man/systemd.link.xml                      |  4 +-
 man/systemd.mount.xml                     | 14 +++---
 man/systemd.netdev.xml                    | 74 +++++++++++++++----------------
 man/systemd.network.xml                   | 24 +++++-----
 man/systemd.nspawn.xml                    | 14 +++---
 man/systemd.service.xml                   | 12 ++---
 man/systemd.socket.xml                    | 12 ++---
 man/systemd.swap.xml                      |  6 +--
 man/systemd.time.xml                      |  2 +-
 man/systemd.unit.xml                      |  4 +-
 man/systemd.xml                           |  2 +-
 man/sysusers.d.xml                        |  2 +-
 man/tmpfiles.d.xml                        | 26 +++++------
 man/udev_device_get_syspath.xml           |  2 +-
 man/udev_device_new_from_syspath.xml      |  2 +-
 man/udev_enumerate_scan_devices.xml       |  2 +-
 man/udevadm.xml                           |  2 +-
 src/libsystemd-network/lldp-tlv.c         |  2 +-
 src/libsystemd-network/sd-dhcp-client.c   |  2 +-
 src/libsystemd-network/test-lldp.c        |  2 +-
 src/nspawn/nspawn.c                       |  4 +-
 src/shared/machine-pool.c                 |  2 +-
 src/udev/udev-builtin-net_id.c            |  8 ++--
 87 files changed, 295 insertions(+), 295 deletions(-)

(limited to 'man/systemd.time.xml')

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 87da6e18cc..080a5609e5 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 227:
 
         * File descriptors passed during socket activation may now be
           named. A new API sd_listen_fds_with_names() is added to
-          access the names.  The default names may be overriden,
+          access the names.  The default names may be overridden,
           either in the .socket file using the FileDescriptorName=
           parameter, or by passing FDNAME= when storing the file
           descriptors using sd_notify().
@@ -1209,7 +1209,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 218:
 
         * journalctl gained two new commands --vacuum-size= and
           --vacuum-time= to delete old journal files until the
-          remaining ones take up no more the specified size on disk,
+          remaining ones take up no more than the specified size on disk,
           or are not older than the specified time.
 
         * A new, native PPPoE library has been added to sd-network,
@@ -1303,7 +1303,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 218:
           a fixed machine ID for subsequent boots.
 
         * networkd's .netdev files now provide a large set of
-          configuration parameters for VXLAN devices. Similar, the
+          configuration parameters for VXLAN devices. Similarly, the
           bridge port cost parameter is now configurable in .network
           files. There's also new support for configuring IP source
           routing. networkd .link files gained support for a new
@@ -1636,7 +1636,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 216:
 
         * .socket units gained a new DeferAcceptSec= setting that
           controls the kernels' TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT sockopt for
-          TCP. Similar, support for controlling TCP keep-alive
+          TCP. Similarly, support for controlling TCP keep-alive
           settings has been added (KeepAliveTimeSec=,
           KeepAliveIntervalSec=, KeepAliveProbes=). Also, support for
           turning off Nagle's algorithm on TCP has been added
@@ -1852,7 +1852,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 215:
         * tmpfiles learnt a new "L+" directive which creates a symlink
           but (unlike "L") deletes a pre-existing file first, should
           it already exist and not already be the correct
-          symlink. Similar, "b+", "c+" and "p+" directives have been
+          symlink. Similarly, "b+", "c+" and "p+" directives have been
           added as well, which create block and character devices, as
           well as fifos in the filesystem, possibly removing any
           pre-existing files of different types.
@@ -2035,14 +2035,14 @@ CHANGES WITH 214:
           CAP_NET_BROADCAST, CAP_NET_RAW capabilities though, but
           loses the ability to write to files owned by root this way.
 
-        * Similar, systemd-resolved now runs under its own
+        * Similarly, systemd-resolved now runs under its own
           "systemd-resolve" user with no capabilities remaining.
 
-        * Similar, systemd-bus-proxyd now runs under its own
+        * Similarly, systemd-bus-proxyd now runs under its own
           "systemd-bus-proxy" user with only CAP_IPC_OWNER remaining.
 
         * systemd-networkd gained support for setting up "veth"
-          virtual ethernet devices for container connectivity, as well
+          virtual Ethernet devices for container connectivity, as well
           as GRE and VTI tunnels.
 
         * systemd-networkd will no longer automatically attempt to
@@ -2744,7 +2744,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 209:
         * The configuration of network interface naming rules for
           "permanent interface names" has changed: a new NamePolicy=
           setting in the [Link] section of .link files determines the
-          priority of possible naming schemes (onboard, slot, mac,
+          priority of possible naming schemes (onboard, slot, MAC,
           path). The default value of this setting is determined by
           /usr/lib/net/links/99-default.link. Old
           80-net-name-slot.rules udev configuration file has been
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index c1dc3921f1..f4b5fb3c54 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -876,7 +876,7 @@ Features:
    - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
    - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
    - add more attribute support for SIT tunnel
-   - work with non-ethernet devices
+   - work with non-Ethernet devices
    - add support for more bond options
 
 * networkd-wait-online:
diff --git a/man/bootctl.xml b/man/bootctl.xml
index 7e915e9eb5..ebd58750d3 100644
--- a/man/bootctl.xml
+++ b/man/bootctl.xml
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
     system.</para>
 
     <para><command>bootctl status</command> checks and prints the
-    currently installed versions of the boot loader binaries and the
+    currently installed versions of the boot loader binaries and
     all current EFI boot variables.</para>
 
     <para><command>bootctl update</command> updates all installed
diff --git a/man/busctl.xml b/man/busctl.xml
index 4d8433f1fb..d8c1085021 100644
--- a/man/busctl.xml
+++ b/man/busctl.xml
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@
           be augmented with data from
           <filename>/proc</filename>. When this is turned on, the data
           shown is possibly inconsistent, as the data read from
-          <filename>/proc</filename> might be more recent than rest of
+          <filename>/proc</filename> might be more recent than the rest of
           the credential information. Defaults to <literal>yes</literal>.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@
         <replaceable>SERVICE</replaceable> is specified, show messages
         to or from this peer, identified by its well-known or unique
         name. Otherwise, show all messages on the bus. Use Ctrl-C to
-        terminate dump.</para></listitem>
+        terminate the dump.</para></listitem>
       </varlistentry>
 
       <varlistentry>
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@
       <varlistentry>
         <term><command>set-property</command> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>SERVICE</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>OBJECT</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>INTERFACE</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>PROPERTY</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>SIGNATURE</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>ARGUMENT</replaceable></arg></term>
 
-        <listitem><para>Set the current value an object
+        <listitem><para>Set the current value of an object
         property. Takes a service name, object path, interface name,
         property name, property signature, followed by a list of
         parameters formatted as strings.</para></listitem>
@@ -370,9 +370,9 @@
     types, each parameter following the signature should simply be the
     parameter's value formatted as string. Positive boolean values may
     be formatted as <literal>true</literal>, <literal>yes</literal>,
-    <literal>on</literal>, <literal>1</literal>; negative boolean
+    <literal>on</literal>, or <literal>1</literal>; negative boolean
     values may be specified as <literal>false</literal>,
-    <literal>no</literal>, <literal>off</literal>,
+    <literal>no</literal>, <literal>off</literal>, or
     <literal>0</literal>. For arrays, a numeric argument for the
     number of entries followed by the entries shall be specified. For
     variants, the signature of the contents shall be specified,
@@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ ARRAY "s" {
       of the <literal>org.freedesktop.systemd1</literal>
       service, and passes it two strings
       <literal>cups.service</literal> and
-      <literal>replace</literal>. As result of the method
+      <literal>replace</literal>. As a result of the method
       call, a single object path parameter is received and
       shown:</para>
 
diff --git a/man/coredump.conf.xml b/man/coredump.conf.xml
index 1ce71535b6..a0a497b467 100644
--- a/man/coredump.conf.xml
+++ b/man/coredump.conf.xml
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
         <term><varname>Compress=</varname></term>
 
         <listitem><para>Controls compression for external
-        storage. Takes a boolean argument, defaults to
+        storage. Takes a boolean argument, which defaults to
         <literal>yes</literal>.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
diff --git a/man/crypttab.xml b/man/crypttab.xml
index d4ff760adc..1de834a045 100644
--- a/man/crypttab.xml
+++ b/man/crypttab.xml
@@ -160,10 +160,10 @@
         at the beginning. This is different from the <option>--offset</option>
         option with respect to the sector numbers used in initialization vector
         (IV) calculation. Using <option>--offset</option> will shift the IV
-        calculation by the same negative amount.  Hence, if <option>--offset n</option>,
+        calculation by the same negative amount.  Hence, if <option>--offset n</option> is given,
         sector n will  get a sector number of 0 for the IV calculation.
         Using <option>--skip</option> causes sector n to also be the first
-        sector of the mapped device, but with its number for IV generation is n.</para>
+        sector of the mapped device, but with its number for IV generation being n.</para>
 
         <para>This option is only relevant for plain devices.</para>
         </listitem>
diff --git a/man/custom-html.xsl b/man/custom-html.xsl
index fe379a4ff0..84c23014e4 100644
--- a/man/custom-html.xsl
+++ b/man/custom-html.xsl
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
 
 <!--
   - helper template to do conflict resolution between various headings with the same inferred ID attribute/tag from the headerlink template
-  - this conflict resolution is necessary to prevent malformed HTML output (multiple id attributes with the same value)
+  - this conflict resolution is necessary to prevent malformed HTML output (multiple ID attributes with the same value)
   - and it fixes xsltproc warnings during compilation of HTML man pages
   -
   - A simple top-to-bottom numbering scheme is implemented for nodes with the same ID value to derive unique ID values for HTML output.
diff --git a/man/file-hierarchy.xml b/man/file-hierarchy.xml
index ff7887660d..345c56cefa 100644
--- a/man/file-hierarchy.xml
+++ b/man/file-hierarchy.xml
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@
 
       <varlistentry>
         <term><filename>/usr/lib/<replaceable>arch-id</replaceable></filename></term>
-        <listitem><para>Location for placing dynamic libraries, also
+        <listitem><para>Location for placing dynamic libraries into, also
         called <varname>$libdir</varname>. The architecture identifier
         to use is defined on <ulink
         url="https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Tuples">Multiarch
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@
         when the user logs out. Usually, it is a better idea to use
         memory mapped files in <filename>/run</filename> (for system
         programs) or <varname>$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR</varname> (for user
-        programs) instead of POSIX shared memory segments, since those
+        programs) instead of POSIX shared memory segments, since these
         directories are not world-writable and hence not vulnerable to
         security-sensitive name clashes.</para></listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -513,7 +513,7 @@
         directory should have no effect on operation of programs,
         except for increased runtimes necessary to rebuild these
         caches. If an application finds
-        <varname>$XDG_CACHE_HOME</varname> set, is should use the
+        <varname>$XDG_CACHE_HOME</varname> set, it should use the
         directory specified in it instead of this
         directory.</para></listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -525,7 +525,7 @@
         new user is created, this directory will be empty or not exist
         at all. Applications should fall back to defaults should their
         configuration or state in this directory be missing. If an
-        application finds <varname>$XDG_CONFIG_HOME</varname> set, is
+        application finds <varname>$XDG_CONFIG_HOME</varname> set, it
         should use the directory specified in it instead of this
         directory.</para></listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -568,7 +568,7 @@
         such as fonts or artwork. Usually, the precise location and
         format of files stored below this directory is subject to
         specifications that ensure interoperability. If an application
-        finds <varname>$XDG_DATA_HOME</varname> set, is should use the
+        finds <varname>$XDG_DATA_HOME</varname> set, it should use the
         directory specified in it instead of this
         directory.</para></listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -618,7 +618,7 @@
 
     <para>It is strongly recommended that <filename>/dev</filename> is
     the only location below which device nodes shall be placed.
-    Similar, <filename>/run</filename> shall be the only location to
+    Similarly, <filename>/run</filename> shall be the only location to
     place sockets and FIFOs. Regular files, directories and symlinks
     may be used in all directories.</para>
   </refsect1>
diff --git a/man/hwdb.xml b/man/hwdb.xml
index 1ff6ec9fbe..2b1e60fb22 100644
--- a/man/hwdb.xml
+++ b/man/hwdb.xml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 
   <refsect1><title>Description</title>
     <para>The hardware database is a key-value store for associating modalias-like keys to
-    udev-properties-like values. It is used primarily by udev to add the relevant properties
+    udev-property-like values. It is used primarily by udev to add the relevant properties
     to matching devices, but it can also be queried directly.</para>
   </refsect1>
 
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
       associated key-value pairs. Every record in the hwdb starts with one or
       more match strings, specifying a shell glob to compare the database
       lookup string against. Multiple match lines are specified in additional
-      consecutive lines. Every match line is compared individually, they are
+      consecutive lines. Every match line is compared individually, and they are
       combined by OR. Every match line must start at the first character of
       the line.</para>
 
diff --git a/man/journalctl.xml b/man/journalctl.xml
index d6cc8a5496..a783a9f3b5 100644
--- a/man/journalctl.xml
+++ b/man/journalctl.xml
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
       matches apply to the same field, then they are automatically
       matched as alternatives, i.e. the resulting output will show
       entries matching any of the specified matches for the same
-      field. Finally, the character <literal>+</literal> may appears
+      field. Finally, the character <literal>+</literal> may appear
       as a separate word between other terms on the command line. This
       causes all matches before and after to be combined in a
       disjunction (i.e. logical OR).</para>
@@ -656,18 +656,18 @@
         <listitem><para>Removes archived journal files until the disk
         space they use falls below the specified size (specified with
         the usual <literal>K</literal>, <literal>M</literal>,
-        <literal>G</literal>, <literal>T</literal> suffixes), or all
+        <literal>G</literal> and <literal>T</literal> suffixes), or all
         journal files contain no data older than the specified
         timespan (specified with the usual <literal>s</literal>,
         <literal>min</literal>, <literal>h</literal>,
         <literal>days</literal>, <literal>months</literal>,
-        <literal>weeks</literal>, <literal>years</literal> suffixes),
+        <literal>weeks</literal> and <literal>years</literal> suffixes),
         or no more than the specified number of separate journal files
         remain. Note that running <option>--vacuum-size=</option> has
-        only indirect effect on the output shown by
+        only an indirect effect on the output shown by
         <option>--disk-usage</option>, as the latter includes active
         journal files, while the vacuuming operation only operates
-        on archived journal files. Similar,
+        on archived journal files. Similarly,
         <option>--vacuum-files=</option> might not actually reduce the
         number of journal files to below the specified number, as it
         will not remove active journal
@@ -772,7 +772,7 @@
       <varlistentry>
         <term><option>--flush</option></term>
 
-        <listitem><para>Asks the Journal daemon to flush any log data
+        <listitem><para>Asks the journal daemon to flush any log data
         stored in <filename>/run/log/journal</filename> into
         <filename>/var/log/journal</filename>, if persistent storage is
         enabled. This call does not return until the operation is
@@ -782,7 +782,7 @@
       <varlistentry>
         <term><option>--rotate</option></term>
 
-        <listitem><para>Asks the Journal daemon to rotate journal files.
+        <listitem><para>Asks the journal daemon to rotate journal files.
         </para></listitem>
       </varlistentry>
       <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="help" />
diff --git a/man/journald.conf.xml b/man/journald.conf.xml
index 59c95d7d34..a9690e8138 100644
--- a/man/journald.conf.xml
+++ b/man/journald.conf.xml
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@
 
         <para><varname>SystemMaxUse=</varname> and
         <varname>RuntimeMaxUse=</varname> control how much disk space
-        the journal may use up at maximum.
+        the journal may use up at most.
         <varname>SystemKeepFree=</varname> and
         <varname>RuntimeKeepFree=</varname> control how much disk
         space systemd-journald shall leave free for other uses.
@@ -220,12 +220,12 @@
         enough free space before and journal files were created, and
         subsequently something else causes the file system to fill up,
         journald will stop using more space, but it will not be
-        removing existing files to reduce footprint again
+        removing existing files to reduce the footprint again,
         either.</para>
 
         <para><varname>SystemMaxFileSize=</varname> and
         <varname>RuntimeMaxFileSize=</varname> control how large
-        individual journal files may grow at maximum. This influences
+        individual journal files may grow at most. This influences
         the granularity in which disk space is made available through
         rotation, i.e. deletion of historic data. Defaults to one
         eighth of the values configured with
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@
 
         <para><varname>SystemMaxFiles=</varname> and
         <varname>RuntimeMaxFiles=</varname> control how many
-        individual journal files to keep at maximum. Note that only
+        individual journal files to keep at most. Note that only
         archived files are deleted to reduce the number of files until
         this limit is reached; active files will stay around. This
         means that, in effect, there might still be more journal files
@@ -375,15 +375,15 @@
 
     <para>
       Journal events can be transferred to a different logging daemon
-      in two different ways. In the first method, messages are
+      in two different ways. With the first method, messages are
       immediately forwarded to a socket
       (<filename>/run/systemd/journal/syslog</filename>), where the
       traditional syslog daemon can read them. This method is
-      controlled by <varname>ForwardToSyslog=</varname> option.  In a
+      controlled by the <varname>ForwardToSyslog=</varname> option. With a
       second method, a syslog daemon behaves like a normal journal
       client, and reads messages from the journal files, similarly to
       <citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
-      In this method, messages do not have to be read immediately,
+      With this, messages do not have to be read immediately,
       which allows a logging daemon which is only started late in boot
       to access all messages since the start of the system. In
       addition, full structured meta-data is available to it. This
diff --git a/man/libudev.xml b/man/libudev.xml
index 1536410a36..7ef978463c 100644
--- a/man/libudev.xml
+++ b/man/libudev.xml
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
     a udev context. Furthermore, multiple different udev contexts can
     be used in parallel by multiple threads. However, a single context
     must not be accessed by multiple threads in parallel. The caller
-    is responsible of providing suitable locking if they intend to use
+    is responsible for providing suitable locking if they intend to use
     it from multiple threads.</para>
 
     <para>To introspect a local device on a system, a udev device
diff --git a/man/logind.conf.xml b/man/logind.conf.xml
index 2b79547275..43d1ffbd3c 100644
--- a/man/logind.conf.xml
+++ b/man/logind.conf.xml
@@ -255,8 +255,8 @@
 
         <listitem><para>Specifies the timeout after system startup or
         system resume in which systemd will hold off on reacting to
-        LID events. This is required for the system to properly
-        detect any hotplugged devices so systemd can ignore LID events
+        lid events. This is required for the system to properly
+        detect any hotplugged devices so systemd can ignore lid events
         if external monitors, or docks, are connected. If set to 0,
         systemd will always react immediately, possibly before the
         kernel fully probed all hotplugged devices. This is safe, as
diff --git a/man/machinectl.xml b/man/machinectl.xml
index 81bf268527..859789850c 100644
--- a/man/machinectl.xml
+++ b/man/machinectl.xml
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@
         <literal>checksum</literal> and <literal>signature</literal>.
         If <literal>no</literal>, no verification is done. If
         <literal>checksum</literal> is specified, the download is
-        checked for integrity after transfer is complete, but no
+        checked for integrity after the transfer is complete, but no
         signatures are verified. If <literal>signature</literal> is
         specified, the checksum is verified and the images's signature
         is checked against a local keyring of trustable vendors. It is
@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@
 
         <para>When using the <command>shell</command> command without
         arguments, (thus invoking the executed shell or command on the
-        local host), it is similar in many ways to a <citerefentry
+        local host), it is in many ways similar to a <citerefentry
         project='die-net'><refentrytitle>su</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
         session, but, unlike <command>su</command>, completely isolates
         the new session from the originating session, so that it
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@
         environment variables or resource limits, among other
         properties.</para>
 
-        <para>Note that the
+        <para>Note that
         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-run</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
         may be used in place of the <command>shell</command> command,
         and allows more detailed, low-level configuration of the
@@ -633,7 +633,7 @@
       <varlistentry>
         <term><command>set-limit</command> [<replaceable>NAME</replaceable>] <replaceable>BYTES</replaceable></term>
 
-        <listitem><para>Sets the maximum size in bytes a specific
+        <listitem><para>Sets the maximum size in bytes that a specific
         container or VM image, or all images, may grow up to on disk
         (disk quota). Takes either one or two parameters. The first,
         optional parameter refers to a container or VM image name. If
@@ -646,7 +646,7 @@
 
         <para>Note that per-container size limits are only supported
         on btrfs file systems. Also note that, if
-        <command>set-limit</command> is invoked without image
+        <command>set-limit</command> is invoked without an image
         parameter, and <filename>/var/lib/machines</filename> is
         empty, and the directory is not located on btrfs, a btrfs
         loopback file is implicitly created as
@@ -656,7 +656,7 @@
         loopback may later be readjusted with
         <command>set-limit</command>, as well. If such a
         loopback-mounted <filename>/var/lib/machines</filename>
-        directory is used, <command>set-limit</command> without image
+        directory is used, <command>set-limit</command> without an image
         name alters both the quota setting within the file system as
         well as the loopback file and file system size
         itself.</para></listitem>
@@ -802,7 +802,7 @@
         and places it under the specified name in
         <filename>/var/lib/machines/</filename>. When
         <command>import-tar</command> is used, the file specified as
-        first argument should be a tar archive, possibly compressed
+        the first argument should be a tar archive, possibly compressed
         with xz, gzip or bzip2. It will then be unpacked into its own
         subvolume in <filename>/var/lib/machines</filename>. When
         <command>import-raw</command> is used, the file should be a
@@ -883,17 +883,17 @@
     semantics. Specifically, they must consist of one or more
     non-empty label strings, separated by dots. No leading or trailing
     dots are allowed. No sequences of multiple dots are allowed. The
-    label strings may only consists of alphanumeric characters as well
+    label strings may only consist of alphanumeric characters as well
     as the dash and underscore. The maximum length of a machine name
     is 64 characters.</para>
 
     <para>A special machine with the name <literal>.host</literal>
     refers to the running host system itself. This is useful for execution
-    operations or inspecting the host system as well. Not that
+    operations or inspecting the host system as well. Note that
     <command>machinectl list</command> will not show this special
     machine unless the <option>--all</option> switch is specified.</para>
 
-    <para>Requirements on image names are less strict, however must be
+    <para>Requirements on image names are less strict, however, they must be
     valid UTF-8, must be suitable as file names (hence not be the
     single or double dot, and not include a slash), and may not
     contain control characters. Since many operations search for an
@@ -901,7 +901,7 @@
     images in the same strict fashion as machines.</para>
 
     <para>A special image with the name <literal>.host</literal>
-    refers to the image of the running host system. It is hence
+    refers to the image of the running host system. It hence
     conceptually maps to the special <literal>.host</literal> machine
     name described above. Note that <command>machinectl
     list-images</command> won't show this special image either, unless
@@ -943,7 +943,7 @@
       <listitem><para>A simple directory tree, containing the files
       and directories of the container to boot.</para></listitem>
 
-      <listitem><para>A subvolume (on btrfs file systems), which are
+      <listitem><para>Subvolumes (on btrfs file systems), which are
       similar to the simple directories, described above. However,
       they have additional benefits, such as efficient cloning and
       quota reporting.</para></listitem>
@@ -956,7 +956,7 @@
 
     <para>See
     <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-nspawn</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
-    for more information on image formats, in particular it's
+    for more information on image formats, in particular its
     <option>--directory=</option> and <option>--image=</option>
     options.</para>
   </refsect1>
@@ -1010,8 +1010,8 @@
 
       <programlisting># machinectl export-tar fedora myfedora.tar.xz</programlisting>
 
-      <para>Exports the container <literal>fedora</literal> in an
-      xz-compress tar file <filename>myfedora.tar.xz</filename> in the
+      <para>Exports the container <literal>fedora</literal> as an
+      xz-compressed tar file <filename>myfedora.tar.xz</filename> into the
       current directory.</para>
     </example>
 
diff --git a/man/networkctl.xml b/man/networkctl.xml
index 46dab58d61..c688714b30 100644
--- a/man/networkctl.xml
+++ b/man/networkctl.xml
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ IDX LINK         TYPE     OPERATIONAL SETUP
           configured DNS servers, etc.</para>
 
           <para>When no links are specified, routable links are
-          shown. See also option <option>--all</option>.</para>
+          shown. Also see the option <option>--all</option>.</para>
 
           <para>Produces output similar to
           <programlisting>
diff --git a/man/nss-myhostname.xml b/man/nss-myhostname.xml
index 629917abc2..277612231b 100644
--- a/man/nss-myhostname.xml
+++ b/man/nss-myhostname.xml
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
 
     <para>It is recommended to place <literal>myhostname</literal>
     last in the <filename>nsswitch.conf</filename> line to make sure
-    that this mapping is only used as fallback, and any DNS or
+    that this mapping is only used as fallback, and that any DNS or
     <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> based mapping takes
     precedence.</para>
   </refsect1>
diff --git a/man/nss-mymachines.xml b/man/nss-mymachines.xml
index 36425eef91..5fce1b1db4 100644
--- a/man/nss-mymachines.xml
+++ b/man/nss-mymachines.xml
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
 
     <para>It is recommended to place <literal>mymachines</literal>
     near the end of the <filename>nsswitch.conf</filename> lines to
-    make sure that its mappings are only used as fallback, and any
+    make sure that its mappings are only used as fallback, and that any
     other mappings, such as DNS or <filename>/etc/hosts</filename>
     based mappings, take precedence.</para>
   </refsect1>
diff --git a/man/resolved.conf.xml b/man/resolved.conf.xml
index b0d777a78b..811e33f4fa 100644
--- a/man/resolved.conf.xml
+++ b/man/resolved.conf.xml
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
     <title>Description</title>
 
     <para>These configuration files control local DNS and LLMNR
-    name resolving.</para>
+    name resolution.</para>
 
   </refsect1>
 
@@ -104,8 +104,8 @@
         Resolution support (<ulink
         url="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4795">RFC 4794</ulink>) on
         the local host. If true, enables full LLMNR responder and
-        resolver support. If false, disable both. If set to
-        <literal>resolve</literal>, only resolving support is enabled,
+        resolver support. If false, disables both. If set to
+        <literal>resolve</literal>, only resolution support is enabled,
         but responding is disabled. Note that
         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-networkd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
         also maintains per-interface LLMNR settings. LLMNR will be
diff --git a/man/sd-bus-errors.xml b/man/sd-bus-errors.xml
index e96f05fc0b..055af7a682 100644
--- a/man/sd-bus-errors.xml
+++ b/man/sd-bus-errors.xml
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@
       </varlistentry>
       <varlistentry>
         <term><varname>SD_BUS_ERROR_FILE_EXISTS</varname></term>
-        <listitem><para>The requested file exists already.</para></listitem>
+        <listitem><para>The requested file already exists.</para></listitem>
       </varlistentry>
       <varlistentry>
         <term><varname>SD_BUS_ERROR_UNKNOWN_METHOD</varname></term>
diff --git a/man/sd_bus_creds_get_pid.xml b/man/sd_bus_creds_get_pid.xml
index 2b8cfe82e9..aec12bda16 100644
--- a/man/sd_bus_creds_get_pid.xml
+++ b/man/sd_bus_creds_get_pid.xml
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@
     to determine the mask of fields available.</para>
 
     <para><function>sd_bus_creds_get_pid()</function> will retrieve
-    the PID (process identifier). Similar,
+    the PID (process identifier). Similarly,
     <function>sd_bus_creds_get_ppid()</function> will retrieve the
     parent PID. Note that PID 1 has no parent process, in which case
     -ENXIO is returned.</para>
@@ -326,14 +326,14 @@
     TID (thread identifier).</para>
 
     <para><function>sd_bus_creds_get_uid()</function> will retrieve
-    the numeric UID (user identifier). Similar,
+    the numeric UID (user identifier). Similarly,
     <function>sd_bus_creds_get_euid()</function> returns the effective
     UID, <function>sd_bus_creds_get_suid()</function> the saved UID
     and <function>sd_bus_creds_get_fsuid()</function> the file system
     UID.</para>
 
     <para><function>sd_bus_creds_get_gid()</function> will retrieve the
-    numeric GID (group identifier). Similar,
+    numeric GID (group identifier). Similarly,
     <function>sd_bus_creds_get_egid()</function> returns the effective
     GID, <function>sd_bus_creds_get_sgid()</function> the saved GID
     and <function>sd_bus_creds_get_fsgid()</function> the file system
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@
     <para><function>sd_bus_creds_get_exe()</function> will retrieve
     the path to the program executable (as stored in the
     <filename>/proc/<replaceable>pid</replaceable>/exe</filename>
-    link, but with <literal> (deleted)</literal> suffix removed). Note
+    link, but with the <literal> (deleted)</literal> suffix removed). Note
     that kernel threads do not have an executable path, in which case
     -ENXIO is returned.</para>
 
@@ -372,36 +372,36 @@
 
     <para><function>sd_bus_creds_get_unit()</function> will retrieve
     the systemd unit name (in the system instance of systemd) that the
-    process is part of. See
+    process is a part of. See
     <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>. For
     processes that are not part of a unit, returns -ENXIO.
     </para>
 
     <para><function>sd_bus_creds_get_user_unit()</function> will
     retrieve the systemd unit name (in the user instance of systemd)
-    that the process is part of. See
+    that the process is a part of. See
     <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>. For
     processes that are not part of a user unit, returns -ENXIO.
     </para>
 
     <para><function>sd_bus_creds_get_slice()</function> will retrieve
     the systemd slice (a unit in the system instance of systemd) that
-    the process is part of. See
-    <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.slice</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>. Similar,
+    the process is a part of. See
+    <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.slice</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>. Similarly,
     <function>sd_bus_creds_get_user_slice()</function> retrieves the
     systemd slice of the process, in the user instance of systemd.
     </para>
 
     <para><function>sd_bus_creds_get_session()</function> will
     retrieve the identifier of the login session that the process is
-    part of. See
+    a part of. See
     <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-logind.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>. For
     processes that are not part of a session, returns -ENXIO.
     </para>
 
     <para><function>sd_bus_creds_get_owner_uid()</function> will
     retrieve the numeric UID (user identifier) of the user who owns
-    the login session that the process is part of. See
+    the login session that the process is a part of. See
     <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-logind.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
     For processes that are not part of a session, returns -ENXIO.
     </para>
@@ -494,7 +494,7 @@
       <varlistentry>
         <term><constant>-ENODATA</constant></term>
 
-        <listitem><para>Given field is not available in the
+        <listitem><para>The given field is not available in the
         credentials object <parameter>c</parameter>.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@
       <varlistentry>
         <term><constant>-ENXIO</constant></term>
 
-        <listitem><para>Given field is not specified for the described
+        <listitem><para>The given field is not specified for the described
         process or peer. This will be returned by
         <function>sd_bus_get_unit()</function>,
         <function>sd_bus_get_slice()</function>,
@@ -514,8 +514,8 @@
         slice, or logind session. It will also be returned by
         <function>sd_bus_creds_get_exe()</function> and
         <function>sd_bus_creds_get_cmdline()</function> for kernel
-        threads (since these aren't started from an executable binary
-        or have a command line),
+        threads (since these are not started from an executable binary,
+        nor have a command line), and by
         <function>sd_bus_creds_get_audit_session_id()</function> and
         <function>sd_bus_creds_get_audit_login_uid()</function> when
         the process is not part of an audit session, and
diff --git a/man/sd_bus_creds_new_from_pid.xml b/man/sd_bus_creds_new_from_pid.xml
index 0194936692..84dd509744 100644
--- a/man/sd_bus_creds_new_from_pid.xml
+++ b/man/sd_bus_creds_new_from_pid.xml
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@
     <para><function>sd_bus_creds_new_from_pid()</function> creates a
     new credentials object and fills it with information about the
     process <parameter>pid</parameter>. The pointer to this object
-    will be stored in <parameter>ret</parameter> pointer. Note that
+    will be stored in the <parameter>ret</parameter> pointer. Note that
     credential objects may also be created and retrieved via
     <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_get_name_creds</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
     <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_get_owner_creds</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
@@ -171,11 +171,11 @@
     <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_AUDIT_LOGIN_UID</constant>,
     <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_TTY</constant>,
     <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_UNIQUE_NAME</constant>,
-    <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_WELL_KNOWN_NAMES</constant>,
+    <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_WELL_KNOWN_NAMES</constant>, and
     <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_DESCRIPTION</constant>. Use the special
     value <constant>_SD_BUS_CREDS_ALL</constant> to request all
     supported fields. The <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_AUGMENT</constant>
-    may not be ORed into the mask for invocations of
+    constant may not be ORed into the mask for invocations of
     <function>sd_bus_creds_new_from_pid()</function>.</para>
 
     <para>Fields can be retrieved from the credentials object using
@@ -204,14 +204,14 @@
     for the credential fields that could not be determined atomically
     at peer connection time, and which were later added by reading
     augmenting credential data from
-    <filename>/proc</filename>. Similar, for credential objects
+    <filename>/proc</filename>. Similarly, for credential objects
     retrieved via <function>sd_bus_get_owner_creds()</function>, the
     mask is set for the fields that could not be determined atomically
-    at bus creation time, but have been augmented. Similar, for
+    at bus creation time, but have been augmented. Similarly, for
     credential objects retrieved via
     <function>sd_bus_message_get_creds()</function>, the mask is set
     for the fields that could not be determined atomically at message
-    send time, but have been augmented. The mask returned by
+    sending time, but have been augmented. The mask returned by
     <function>sd_bus_creds_get_augmented_mask()</function> is always a
     subset of (or identical to) the mask returned by
     <function>sd_bus_creds_get_mask()</function> for the same
diff --git a/man/sd_bus_default.xml b/man/sd_bus_default.xml
index 2160b76762..6d5a90de72 100644
--- a/man/sd_bus_default.xml
+++ b/man/sd_bus_default.xml
@@ -120,8 +120,8 @@
     call), the connection is terminated. Note that the connection is
     not automatically terminated when the associated thread ends. It
     is important to drop the last reference to the bus connection
-    explicitly before the thread ends, or otherwise, the connection will
-    be leaked. Also, queued but unread or unwritten messages keep the
+    explicitly before the thread ends, as otherwise, the connection will
+    leak. Also, queued but unread or unwritten messages keep the
     bus referenced, see below.</para>
 
     <para><function>sd_bus_default_user()</function> returns a user
@@ -139,14 +139,14 @@
     <function>sd_bus_open_system()</function> does the same, but
     connects to the system bus. In contrast to
     <function>sd_bus_default()</function>,
-    <function>sd_bus_default_user()</function>,
+    <function>sd_bus_default_user()</function>, and
     <function>sd_bus_default_system()</function>, these calls return
     new, independent connection objects that are not associated with
     the invoking thread and are not shared between multiple
     invocations. It is recommended to share connections per thread to
     efficiently make use the available resources. Thus, it is
     recommended to use <function>sd_bus_default()</function>,
-    <function>sd_bus_default_user()</function>,
+    <function>sd_bus_default_user()</function> and
     <function>sd_bus_default_system()</function> to connect to the
     user or system buses.</para>
 
diff --git a/man/sd_bus_error.xml b/man/sd_bus_error.xml
index 87eac1d1b8..c2d7ee389b 100644
--- a/man/sd_bus_error.xml
+++ b/man/sd_bus_error.xml
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@
     call can fail if no memory may be allocated for the name and
     message strings, in which case an
     <constant>SD_BUS_ERROR_NO_MEMORY</constant> error might be set
-    instead and -ENOMEM returned. Do not use this call on error
+    instead and -ENOMEM be returned. Do not use this call on error
     structures that are already initialized. If you intend to reuse an
     error structure, free the old data stored in it with
     <function>sd_bus_error_free()</function> first.</para>
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@
     convenient usage in <function>return</function> statements. This
     call might fail due to lack of memory, in which case an
     <constant>SD_BUS_ERROR_NO_MEMORY</constant> error is set instead,
-    and -ENOMEM returned.</para>
+    and -ENOMEM is returned.</para>
 
     <para><function>sd_bus_error_set_errnof()</function> is similar to
     <function>sd_bus_error_set_errno()</function>, but in addition to
@@ -295,10 +295,10 @@
     <title>Return Value</title>
 
     <para>The functions <function>sd_bus_error_set()</function>,
-    <function>sd_bus_error_setf()</function>,
+    <function>sd_bus_error_setf()</function>, and
     <function>sd_bus_error_set_const()</function>, when successful,
     return the negative errno value corresponding to the
-    <parameter>name</parameter> parameter. Functions
+    <parameter>name</parameter> parameter. The functions
     <function>sd_bus_error_set_errno()</function>,
     <function>sd_bus_error_set_errnof()</function> and
     <function>sd_bus_error_set_errnofv()</function>, when successful,
diff --git a/man/sd_bus_error_add_map.xml b/man/sd_bus_error_add_map.xml
index 0af5113d75..139bd77d8c 100644
--- a/man/sd_bus_error_add_map.xml
+++ b/man/sd_bus_error_add_map.xml
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
     <para>The function takes a pointer to an array of
     <structname>sd_bus_error_map</structname> structures. A reference
     to the specified array is added to the lookup tables for error
-    mappings. Note that the structure is not copied, it is hence
+    mappings. Note that the structure is not copied, and that it is hence
     essential that the array stays available and constant during the
     entire remaining runtime of the process.</para>
 
diff --git a/man/sd_bus_message_append_array.xml b/man/sd_bus_message_append_array.xml
index 656ad4846d..5a1abcec93 100644
--- a/man/sd_bus_message_append_array.xml
+++ b/man/sd_bus_message_append_array.xml
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@
     the offset is specified as zero and the size specified as
     UINT64_MAX the full memory file descriptor contents is used. The
     memory file descriptor is sealed by this call if it hasn't been
-    sealed yet, and cannot be modified a after this call. See
+    sealed yet, and cannot be modified after this call. See
     <citerefentry
     project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>memfd_create</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
     for details about memory file descriptors. Appending arrays with
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@
     copying items to the message, it returns a pointer to the
     destination area to the caller in pointer
     <parameter>p</parameter>. The caller should subsequently write the
-    array contents to this memory. Modifications of the memory
+    array contents to this memory. Modifications to the memory
     pointed to should only occur until the next operation on the bus
     message is invoked. Most importantly, the memory should not be
     altered anymore when another field has been added to the message
diff --git a/man/sd_bus_message_get_monotonic_usec.xml b/man/sd_bus_message_get_monotonic_usec.xml
index 4c2c06e903..2c0a8a5d54 100644
--- a/man/sd_bus_message_get_monotonic_usec.xml
+++ b/man/sd_bus_message_get_monotonic_usec.xml
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
     <citerefentry><refentrytitle>clock_gettime</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
     for details.</para>
 
-    <para>Similar,
+    <para>Similarly,
     <function>sd_bus_message_get_realtime_usec()</function> returns
     the realtime (wallclock) timestamp of the time the message was
     sent. This value is in microseconds since Jan 1st, 1970, i.e. in
diff --git a/man/sd_bus_negotiate_fds.xml b/man/sd_bus_negotiate_fds.xml
index aae52989f9..a538b13cf0 100644
--- a/man/sd_bus_negotiate_fds.xml
+++ b/man/sd_bus_negotiate_fds.xml
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@
 
     <para><function>sd_bus_negotiate_creds()</function> controls
     whether and which implicit sender credentials shall be attached
-    automatically to all incoming messages. Takes a bus object, a
+    automatically to all incoming messages. Takes a bus object and a
     boolean indicating whether to enable or disable the credential
     parts encoded in the bit mask value argument. Note that not all
     transports support attaching sender credentials to messages, or do
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@
     after a connection has been set up. Note that, when operating on a
     connection that is shared between multiple components of the same
     program (for example via
-    <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_default</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>)
+    <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_default</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>),
     it is highly recommended to only enable additional per message
     metadata fields, but never disable them again, in order not to
     disable functionality needed by other components.</para>
diff --git a/man/sd_bus_path_encode.xml b/man/sd_bus_path_encode.xml
index 2f834ad41c..3088243e45 100644
--- a/man/sd_bus_path_encode.xml
+++ b/man/sd_bus_path_encode.xml
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@
     (<literal>char **</literal>) via varargs. The decoded label
     will be stored there. Each <literal>%</literal> character will
     only match the current label. It will never match across labels.
-    Furthermore, only a single such directive is allowed per label.
+    Furthermore, only a single directive is allowed per label.
     If <literal>NULL</literal> is passed as output storage, the
     label is verified but not returned to the caller.</para>
   </refsect1>
diff --git a/man/sd_event_add_child.xml b/man/sd_event_add_child.xml
index b62d1ee5e1..77bec4e706 100644
--- a/man/sd_event_add_child.xml
+++ b/man/sd_event_add_child.xml
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@
       <varlistentry>
         <term><constant>-EBUSY</constant></term>
 
-        <listitem><para>An handler is already installed for this
+        <listitem><para>A handler is already installed for this
         child.</para></listitem>
 
       </varlistentry>
diff --git a/man/sd_event_add_defer.xml b/man/sd_event_add_defer.xml
index 01504bf01e..826f2fd224 100644
--- a/man/sd_event_add_defer.xml
+++ b/man/sd_event_add_defer.xml
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
   <refsect1>
     <title>Description</title>
 
-    <para>Those three functions add new event sources to an event loop
+    <para>These three functions add new event sources to an event loop
     object. The event loop is specified in
     <parameter>event</parameter>, the event source is returned in the
     <parameter>source</parameter> parameter. The event sources are
diff --git a/man/sd_event_add_signal.xml b/man/sd_event_add_signal.xml
index 1d0942b45c..0923fe0ae7 100644
--- a/man/sd_event_add_signal.xml
+++ b/man/sd_event_add_signal.xml
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
 
     <para><function>sd_event_add_signal()</function> adds a new signal
     event source to an event loop object. The event loop is specified
-    in <parameter>event</parameter>, the event source is returned in
+    in <parameter>event</parameter>, and the event source is returned in
     the <parameter>source</parameter> parameter. The
     <parameter>signal</parameter> parameter specifies the signal to be handled
     (see
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@
       <varlistentry>
         <term><constant>-EBUSY</constant></term>
 
-        <listitem><para>An handler is already installed for this
+        <listitem><para>A handler is already installed for this
         signal or the signal was not blocked previously.</para></listitem>
 
       </varlistentry>
diff --git a/man/sd_event_run.xml b/man/sd_event_run.xml
index d1c92d1b0a..06236fcd1a 100644
--- a/man/sd_event_run.xml
+++ b/man/sd_event_run.xml
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
     <refname>sd_event_run</refname>
     <refname>sd_event_loop</refname>
 
-    <refpurpose>Run libsystemd event loop</refpurpose>
+    <refpurpose>Run the libsystemd event loop</refpurpose>
   </refnamediv>
 
   <refsynopsisdiv>
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
     <para><function>sd_event_run()</function> can be used to run one
     iteration of the event loop of libsystemd. This function waits
     until an event to process is available, and dispatches a handler
-    for it. Parameter <parameter>timeout</parameter> specifices the
+    for it. The <parameter>timeout</parameter> parameter specifices the
     maximum time (in microseconds) to wait. <constant>(uint64_t)
     -1</constant> may be used to specify an infinite timeout.</para>
 
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
       <varlistentry>
         <term><constant>-EINVAL</constant></term>
 
-        <listitem><para>Parameter <parameter>event</parameter> is
+        <listitem><para>The <parameter>event</parameter> parameter is
         <constant>NULL</constant>.</para></listitem>
       </varlistentry>
 
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@
       <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_event_add_defer</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
       <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_event_add_exit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
       <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_event_add_post</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
-      <ulink url="https://developer.gnome.org/glib/unstable/glib-The-Main-Event-Loop.html">GLIb Main Event Loop</ulink>.
+      <ulink url="https://developer.gnome.org/glib/unstable/glib-The-Main-Event-Loop.html">GLib Main Event Loop</ulink>.
     </para>
   </refsect1>
 
diff --git a/man/sd_event_set_name.xml b/man/sd_event_set_name.xml
index 72aef897c7..1471e12e59 100644
--- a/man/sd_event_set_name.xml
+++ b/man/sd_event_set_name.xml
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
     <parameter>source</parameter>. This name will be used in error
     messages generated by
     <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-event</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
-    for this source. Specified <parameter>name</parameter> must point
+    for this source. The <parameter>name</parameter> must point
     to a <constant>NUL</constant>-terminated string or be
     <constant>NULL</constant>. In the latter case, the name will be
     unset. The string is copied internally, so the
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@
   <refsect1>
     <title>Notes</title>
 
-    <para>Functions described here are available as a
+    <para>The functions described here are available as a
     shared library, which can be compiled and linked to with the
     <constant>libsystemd</constant> <citerefentry
     project='die-net'><refentrytitle>pkg-config</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
diff --git a/man/sd_event_wait.xml b/man/sd_event_wait.xml
index 3ccafc64bd..7ca50aedf9 100644
--- a/man/sd_event_wait.xml
+++ b/man/sd_event_wait.xml
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
     <refname>sd_event_prepare</refname>
     <refname>sd_event_dispatch</refname>
 
-    <refpurpose>Run parts of libsystemd event loop</refpurpose>
+    <refpurpose>Run parts of the libsystemd event loop</refpurpose>
   </refnamediv>
 
   <refsynopsisdiv>
@@ -123,8 +123,8 @@
              └──────────┘
     </programlisting>
 
-    <para>All three functions as the first argument take the event
-    loop object <parameter>event</parameter> that is created with with
+    <para>All three functions take, as the first argument, the event
+    loop object <parameter>event</parameter> that is created with
     <function>sd_event_new</function>. The timeout for
     <function>sd_event_wait</function> is specified with
     <parameter>timeout</parameter> in milliseconds.
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@
       <varlistentry>
         <term><constant>-EINVAL</constant></term>
 
-        <listitem><para>Parameter <parameter>event</parameter> is
+        <listitem><para>The <parameter>event</parameter> parameter is
         <constant>NULL</constant>.</para></listitem>
       </varlistentry>
 
diff --git a/man/sd_listen_fds.xml b/man/sd_listen_fds.xml
index 15c35904fb..93bf8d853f 100644
--- a/man/sd_listen_fds.xml
+++ b/man/sd_listen_fds.xml
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@
     <function>sd_is_socket()</function> and related calls is not
     sufficient. Note that the names used are not unique in any
     way. The returned array of strings has as many entries as file
-    descriptors has been received, plus a final NULL pointer
+    descriptors have been received, plus a final NULL pointer
     terminating the array. The caller needs to free the array itself
     and each of its elements with libc's <function>free()</function>
     call after use. If the <parameter>names</parameter> parameter is
diff --git a/man/sd_notify.xml b/man/sd_notify.xml
index 296c20294b..dbf6330453 100644
--- a/man/sd_notify.xml
+++ b/man/sd_notify.xml
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@
         different names to submitted file descriptors, submit them in
         seperate invocations of
         <function>sd_pid_notify_with_fds()</function>. The name may
-        consist of any ASCII characters, but must not contain control
+        consist of any ASCII character, but must not contain control
         characters or <literal>:</literal>. It may not be longer than
         255 characters. If a submitted name does not follow these
         restrictions, it is ignored.</para></listitem>
diff --git a/man/sd_pid_get_session.xml b/man/sd_pid_get_session.xml
index eabe50fdfa..8858459401 100644
--- a/man/sd_pid_get_session.xml
+++ b/man/sd_pid_get_session.xml
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@
     determine the Unix UID (user identifier) of the owner of the
     session of a process identified the specified PID. Note that this
     function will succeed for user processes which are shared between
-    multiple login sessions of the same user, where
+    multiple login sessions of the same user, whereas
     <function>sd_pid_get_session()</function> will fail. For processes
     not being part of a login session and not being a shared process
     of a user, this function will fail with -ENODATA.</para>
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@
     <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>free</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
     call after use.</para>
 
-    <para>Similar, <function>sd_pid_get_user_slice()</function>
+    <para>Similarly, <function>sd_pid_get_user_slice()</function>
     returns the user slice (as managed by the user's systemd instance)
     of a process.</para>
 
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@
       <varlistentry>
         <term><constant>-ENODATA</constant></term>
 
-        <listitem><para>Given field is not specified for the described
+        <listitem><para>The given field is not specified for the described
         process or peer.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
diff --git a/man/sd_seat_get_active.xml b/man/sd_seat_get_active.xml
index 4d3e0822e0..ee41f64ec3 100644
--- a/man/sd_seat_get_active.xml
+++ b/man/sd_seat_get_active.xml
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@
       <varlistentry>
         <term><constant>-ENODATA</constant></term>
 
-        <listitem><para>Given field is not specified for the described
+        <listitem><para>The given field is not specified for the described
         seat.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
diff --git a/man/sd_session_is_active.xml b/man/sd_session_is_active.xml
index 7de9523789..3bf5dc8120 100644
--- a/man/sd_session_is_active.xml
+++ b/man/sd_session_is_active.xml
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@
       <varlistentry>
         <term><constant>-ENODATA</constant></term>
 
-        <listitem><para>Given field is not specified for the described
+        <listitem><para>The given field is not specified for the described
         session.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
diff --git a/man/sd_uid_get_state.xml b/man/sd_uid_get_state.xml
index 13ddf08c65..39123a59bb 100644
--- a/man/sd_uid_get_state.xml
+++ b/man/sd_uid_get_state.xml
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@
       <varlistentry>
         <term><constant>-ENODATA</constant></term>
 
-        <listitem><para>Given field is not specified for the described
+        <listitem><para>The given field is not specified for the described
         user.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
diff --git a/man/standard-conf.xml b/man/standard-conf.xml
index 8e4611ceab..6edbb7ff83 100644
--- a/man/standard-conf.xml
+++ b/man/standard-conf.xml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
   <refsection id='main-conf'>
     <title>Configuration Directories and Precedence</title>
 
-    <para>Default configuration is defined during compilation, so a
+    <para>The default configuration is defined during compilation, so a
     configuration file is only needed when it is necessary to deviate
     from those defaults. By default, the configuration file in
     <filename>/etc/systemd/</filename> contains commented out entries
diff --git a/man/sysctl.d.xml b/man/sysctl.d.xml
index c6e8b8cfa0..ccf6c8e39f 100644
--- a/man/sysctl.d.xml
+++ b/man/sysctl.d.xml
@@ -142,8 +142,8 @@ net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-arptables = 0
       <para>This method applies settings when the module is
       loaded. Please note that, unless the <filename>br_netfilter</filename>
       module is loaded, bridged packets will not be filtered by
-      netfilter (starting with kernel 3.18), so simply not loading the
-      module is suffient to avoid filtering.</para>
+      Netfilter (starting with kernel 3.18), so simply not loading the
+      module is sufficient to avoid filtering.</para>
     </example>
 
     <example>
@@ -163,9 +163,9 @@ net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-arptables = 0
 
       <para>This method forces the module to be always loaded. Please
       note that, unless the <filename>br_netfilter</filename> module is
-      loaded, bridged packets will not be filtered with netfilter
+      loaded, bridged packets will not be filtered with Netfilter
       (starting with kernel 3.18), so simply not loading the module is
-      suffient to avoid filtering.</para>
+      sufficient to avoid filtering.</para>
     </example>
   </refsect1>
 
diff --git a/man/systemctl.xml b/man/systemctl.xml
index 1a61fcf72e..2fe24fd139 100644
--- a/man/systemctl.xml
+++ b/man/systemctl.xml
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
         <listitem>
           <para>The argument should be a comma-separated list of unit
           LOAD, SUB, or ACTIVE states. When listing units, show only
-          those in specified states. Use <option>--state=failed</option>
+          those in the specified states. Use <option>--state=failed</option>
           to show only failed units.</para>
 
           <para>As a special case, if one of the arguments is
@@ -518,7 +518,7 @@
         <listitem>
           <para>When used with
           <command>enable</command>/<command>disable</command>/<command>is-enabled</command>
-          (and related commands), use alternative root path when
+          (and related commands), use an alternate root path when
           looking for unit files.</para>
         </listitem>
 
@@ -851,7 +851,7 @@ kobject-uevent 1 systemd-udevd-kernel.socket systemd-udevd.service
             <para>Show properties of one or more units, jobs, or the
             manager itself. If no argument is specified, properties of
             the manager will be shown. If a unit name is specified,
-            properties of the unit is shown, and if a job id is
+            properties of the unit is shown, and if a job ID is
             specified, properties of the job is shown. By default, empty
             properties are suppressed. Use <option>--all</option> to
             show those too. To select specific properties to show, use
@@ -1158,17 +1158,17 @@ kobject-uevent 1 systemd-udevd-kernel.socket systemd-udevd.service
                   </row>
                   <row>
                     <entry><literal>static</literal></entry>
-                    <entry>Unit file is not enabled, and has no provisions for enabling in the <literal>[Install]</literal> section.</entry>
+                    <entry>The unit file is not enabled, and has no provisions for enabling in the <literal>[Install]</literal> section.</entry>
                     <entry>0</entry>
                   </row>
                   <row>
                     <entry><literal>indirect</literal></entry>
-                    <entry>Unit file itself is not enabled, but it has a non-empty <varname>Also=</varname> setting in the <literal>[Install]</literal> section, listing other unit files that might be enabled.</entry>
+                    <entry>The unit file itself is not enabled, but it has a non-empty <varname>Also=</varname> setting in the <literal>[Install]</literal> section, listing other unit files that might be enabled.</entry>
                     <entry>0</entry>
                   </row>
                   <row>
                     <entry><literal>disabled</literal></entry>
-                    <entry>Unit file is not enabled.</entry>
+                    <entry>The unit file is not enabled.</entry>
                     <entry>&gt; 0</entry>
                   </row>
                 </tbody>
@@ -1227,12 +1227,12 @@ kobject-uevent 1 systemd-udevd-kernel.socket systemd-udevd.service
 
           <listitem>
             <para>Adds <literal>Wants=</literal> or <literal>Requires=</literal>
-            dependency, respectively, to the specified
+            dependencies, respectively, to the specified
             <replaceable>TARGET</replaceable> for one or more units. </para>
 
             <para>This command honors <option>--system</option>,
             <option>--user</option>, <option>--runtime</option> and
-            <option>--global</option> in a similar way as
+            <option>--global</option> in a way similar to
             <command>enable</command>.</para>
 
           </listitem>
@@ -1248,7 +1248,7 @@ kobject-uevent 1 systemd-udevd-kernel.socket systemd-udevd.service
 
             <para>Depending on whether <option>--system</option> (the default),
             <option>--user</option>, or <option>--global</option> is specified,
-            this creates a drop-in file for each unit either for the system,
+            this command creates a drop-in file for each unit either for the system,
             for the calling user, or for all futures logins of all users. Then,
             the editor (see the "Environment" section below) is invoked on
             temporary files which will be written to the real location if the
@@ -1442,7 +1442,7 @@ kobject-uevent 1 systemd-udevd-kernel.socket systemd-udevd.service
           <term><command>daemon-reload</command></term>
 
           <listitem>
-            <para>Reload systemd manager configuration. This will
+            <para>Reload the systemd manager configuration. This will
             rerun all generators (see
             <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.generator</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>),
             reload all unit files, and recreate the entire dependency
@@ -1485,7 +1485,7 @@ kobject-uevent 1 systemd-udevd-kernel.socket systemd-udevd.service
             maintenance mode, and with no failed services. Failure is
             returned otherwise (exit code non-zero). In addition, the
             current state is printed in a short string to standard
-            output, see table below. Use <option>--quiet</option> to
+            output, see the table below. Use <option>--quiet</option> to
             suppress this output.</para>
 
             <table>
diff --git a/man/systemd-ask-password.xml b/man/systemd-ask-password.xml
index bc60f6d61b..6fb322e849 100644
--- a/man/systemd-ask-password.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-ask-password.xml
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@
         any collected passwords into the kernel keyring of the root
         user, as a key of the specified name. If combined with
         <option>--accept-cached</option>, it will also try to retrieve
-        the such cached passwords from the key in the kernel keyring
+        such cached passwords from the key in the kernel keyring
         instead of querying the user right away. By using this option,
         the kernel keyring may be used as effective cache to avoid
         repeatedly asking users for passwords, if there are multiple
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@
         <term><option>--accept-cached</option></term>
 
         <listitem><para>If passed, accept cached passwords, i.e.
-        passwords previously typed in. </para></listitem>
+        passwords previously entered.</para></listitem>
       </varlistentry>
 
       <varlistentry>
diff --git a/man/systemd-backlight@.service.xml b/man/systemd-backlight@.service.xml
index a259f5d583..3459ed8851 100644
--- a/man/systemd-backlight@.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-backlight@.service.xml
@@ -58,8 +58,8 @@
     that restores the display backlight brightness at early boot and
     saves it at shutdown. On disk, the backlight brightness is stored
     in <filename>/var/lib/systemd/backlight/</filename>. During
-    loading, if udev property <option>ID_BACKLIGHT_CLAMP</option> is
-    not set to false value, the brightness is clamped to a value of at
+    loading, if the udev property <option>ID_BACKLIGHT_CLAMP</option> is
+    not set to false, the brightness is clamped to a value of at
     least 1 or 5% of maximum brightness, whichever is greater. This
     restriction will be removed when the kernel allows user space to
     reliably set a brightness value which does not turn off the
diff --git a/man/systemd-cgtop.xml b/man/systemd-cgtop.xml
index 8f6ee8ae1f..c76f646984 100644
--- a/man/systemd-cgtop.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-cgtop.xml
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@
         <listitem><para>Controls whether the number of processes shown
         for a control group shall include all processes that are
         contained in any of the child control groups as well. Takes a
-        boolean argument, defaults to <literal>yes</literal>. If
+        boolean argument, which defaults to <literal>yes</literal>. If
         enabled, the processes in child control groups are included, if
         disabled, only the processes in the control group itself are
         counted. This setting may also be toggled at runtime by
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@
         excluding processes in child control groups in control group
         process counts. This setting may also be controlled using the
         <option>--recursive=</option> command line switch. This key is
-        not available of all tasks are counted, it is only available
+        not available if all tasks are counted, it is only available
         if processes are counted, as enabled with the
         <keycap>P</keycap> or <keycap>k</keycap>
         keys.</para></listitem>
diff --git a/man/systemd-escape.xml b/man/systemd-escape.xml
index b16de979c5..5407773f23 100644
--- a/man/systemd-escape.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-escape.xml
@@ -69,9 +69,9 @@
 
     <para>By default, this command will escape the strings passed,
     unless <option>--unescape</option> is passed which results in the
-    inverse operation being applied. If <option>--mangle</option> a
-    special mode of escaping is applied instead, which assumes a
-    string to be already escaped but will escape everything that
+    inverse operation being applied. If <option>--mangle</option> is given, a
+    special mode of escaping is applied instead, which assumes the
+    string is already escaped but will escape everything that
     appears obviously non-escaped.</para>
   </refsect1>
 
diff --git a/man/systemd-firstboot.xml b/man/systemd-firstboot.xml
index b3bd59d41a..b269e48113 100644
--- a/man/systemd-firstboot.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-firstboot.xml
@@ -80,8 +80,8 @@
       <listitem><para>The root user's password</para></listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
 
-    <para>Each of the fields may either be queried interactively from
-    the users, set non-interactively on the tool's command line, or be
+    <para>Each of the fields may either be queried interactively by
+    users, set non-interactively on the tool's command line, or be
     copied from a host system that is used to set up the system
     image.</para>
 
@@ -166,9 +166,9 @@
         <citerefentry project='die-net'><refentrytitle>shadow</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
         file. This setting exists in two forms:
         <option>--root-password=</option> accepts the password to set
-        directly on the command line,
+        directly on the command line, and
         <option>--root-password-file=</option> reads it from a file.
-        Note that it is not recommended specifying passwords on the
+        Note that it is not recommended to specify passwords on the
         command line, as other users might be able to see them simply
         by invoking
         <citerefentry project='die-net'><refentrytitle>ps</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para></listitem>
diff --git a/man/systemd-fsck@.service.xml b/man/systemd-fsck@.service.xml
index 6d05e90e7b..399d7e19cb 100644
--- a/man/systemd-fsck@.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-fsck@.service.xml
@@ -66,11 +66,11 @@
     <filename>systemd-fsck@.service</filename> is used for all other
     file systems and for the root file system in the initramfs.</para>
 
-    <para>Those services are started at boot if
+    <para>These services are started at boot if
     <option>passno</option> in <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> for the
     file system is set to a value greater than zero. The file system
     check for root is performed before the other file systems. Other
-    file systems may be checked in parallel, except when they are one
+    file systems may be checked in parallel, except when they are on
     the same rotating disk.</para>
 
     <para><filename>systemd-fsck</filename> does not know any details
diff --git a/man/systemd-hwdb.xml b/man/systemd-hwdb.xml
index f1a14025b0..2b363c77f2 100644
--- a/man/systemd-hwdb.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-hwdb.xml
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
         <term><option>-r</option></term>
         <term><option>--root=<replaceable>PATH</replaceable></option></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>Alternative root path in the filesystem.</para>
+          <para>Alternate root path in the filesystem.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
     </variablelist>
diff --git a/man/systemd-journald.service.xml b/man/systemd-journald.service.xml
index 8a72eedb16..21fd684b8b 100644
--- a/man/systemd-journald.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-journald.service.xml
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ systemd-tmpfiles --create --prefix /var/log/journal</programlisting>
 
         <listitem><para>Sockets and other paths that
         <command>systemd-journald</command> will listen on that are
-        visible in the file system. In addition to those, journald can
+        visible in the file system. In addition to these, journald can
         listen for audit events using netlink.</para></listitem>
       </varlistentry>
     </variablelist>
diff --git a/man/systemd-machine-id-commit.service.xml b/man/systemd-machine-id-commit.service.xml
index 645f41df95..39da1922cc 100644
--- a/man/systemd-machine-id-commit.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-machine-id-commit.service.xml
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 
   <refnamediv>
     <refname>systemd-machine-id-commit.service</refname>
-    <refpurpose>Commit a transient machine-id to disk</refpurpose>
+    <refpurpose>Commit a transient machine ID to disk</refpurpose>
   </refnamediv>
 
   <refsynopsisdiv>
diff --git a/man/systemd-machine-id-setup.xml b/man/systemd-machine-id-setup.xml
index b698ae454e..bfcd74f436 100644
--- a/man/systemd-machine-id-setup.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-machine-id-setup.xml
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
       and is different for every booted instance of the
       VM.</para></listitem>
 
-      <listitem><para>Similar, if run inside a Linux container
+      <listitem><para>Similarly, if run inside a Linux container
       environment and a UUID is configured for the container, this is
       used to initialize the machine ID. For details, see the
       documentation of the <ulink
diff --git a/man/systemd-notify.xml b/man/systemd-notify.xml
index a2c1e80681..a5f4077166 100644
--- a/man/systemd-notify.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-notify.xml
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
         message is sent. This option is hence unrelated to the other
         options. For details about the semantics of this option, see
         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_booted</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>. An
-        alternative way to check for this state is to call
+        alternate way to check for this state is to call
         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
         with the <command>is-system-running</command> command. It will
         return <literal>offline</literal> if the system was not booted
diff --git a/man/systemd-nspawn.xml b/man/systemd-nspawn.xml
index 374447b6f0..4725604c03 100644
--- a/man/systemd-nspawn.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-nspawn.xml
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@
         must be shifted to the container UID base that is
         used during container runtime.</para>
 
-        <para>It is recommended to assign as least 65536 UIDs to each
+        <para>It is recommended to assign at least 65536 UIDs to each
         container, so that the usable UID range in the container
         covers 16 bit. For best security, do not assign overlapping UID
         ranges to multiple containers. It is hence a good idea to use
@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@
         which case <literal>tcp</literal> is assumed. The container
         port number and its colon may be omitted, in which case the
         same port as the host port is implied. This option is only
-        supported if private networking is used, such as
+        supported if private networking is used, such as with
         <option>--network-veth</option> or
         <option>--network-bridge=</option>.</para></listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -693,7 +693,7 @@
         <listitem><para>Controls whether the container is registered
         with
         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-machined</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
-        Takes a boolean argument, defaults to <literal>yes</literal>.
+        Takes a boolean argument, which defaults to <literal>yes</literal>.
         This option should be enabled when the container runs a full
         Operating System (more specifically: an init system), and is
         useful to ensure that the container is accessible via
@@ -753,7 +753,7 @@
         <listitem><para>Boots the container in volatile mode. When no
         mode parameter is passed or when mode is specified as
         <option>yes</option>, full volatile mode is enabled. This
-        means the root directory is mounted as mostly unpopulated
+        means the root directory is mounted as a mostly unpopulated
         <literal>tmpfs</literal> instance, and
         <filename>/usr</filename> from the OS tree is mounted into it,
         read-only (the system thus starts up with read-only OS
@@ -761,9 +761,9 @@
         to the either are lost on shutdown). When the mode parameter
         is specified as <option>state</option>, the OS tree is
         mounted read-only, but <filename>/var</filename> is mounted as
-        <literal>tmpfs</literal> instance into it (the system thus
+        a <literal>tmpfs</literal> instance into it (the system thus
         starts up with read-only OS resources and configuration, but
-        pristine state, any changes to the latter are lost on
+        pristine state, and any changes to the latter are lost on
         shutdown). When the mode parameter is specified as
         <option>no</option> (the default), the whole OS tree is made
         available writable.</para>
@@ -816,7 +816,7 @@
 
         <para>If this option is set to <option>trusted</option>, the
         file is searched, read and used the same way, but regardless
-        if found in <filename>/etc/systemd/nspawn/</filename>,
+        of being found in <filename>/etc/systemd/nspawn/</filename>,
         <filename>/run/systemd/nspawn/</filename> or next to the image
         file or container root directory, all settings will take
         effect, however, command line arguments still take precedence
diff --git a/man/systemd-resolved.service.xml b/man/systemd-resolved.service.xml
index 8a1d9857b5..43d568c6f7 100644
--- a/man/systemd-resolved.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-resolved.service.xml
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
     <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.network</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
     for details. To improve compatibility,
     <filename>/etc/resolv.conf</filename> is read in order to discover
-    configured system DNS servers, however only if it is not a symlink
+    configured system DNS servers, but only if it is not a symlink
     to <filename>/run/systemd/resolve/resolv.conf</filename> (see above).</para>
 
     <para><command>systemd-resolved</command> synthesizes DNS RRs for the following cases:</para>
diff --git a/man/systemd-run.xml b/man/systemd-run.xml
index 9c8fbeeff4..414e1c8335 100644
--- a/man/systemd-run.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-run.xml
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@
         <term><option>--pty</option></term>
         <term><option>-t</option></term>
 
-        <listitem><para>When invoking a command as service connects
+        <listitem><para>When invoking a command, the service connects
         its standard input and output to the invoking tty via a
         pseudo TTY device. This allows invoking binaries as services
         that expect interactive user input, such as interactive
diff --git a/man/systemd-sysusers.xml b/man/systemd-sysusers.xml
index ee9d89ad3c..4892caad12 100644
--- a/man/systemd-sysusers.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-sysusers.xml
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
     specified in
     <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sysusers.d</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
     are searched for a matching file. If the string
-    <filename>-</filename> is specified as filenames, entries from the
+    <filename>-</filename> is specified as filename, entries from the
     standard input of the process are read.</para>
   </refsect1>
 
diff --git a/man/systemd-sysv-generator.xml b/man/systemd-sysv-generator.xml
index f2d56cbcd2..bb5cc55e9f 100644
--- a/man/systemd-sysv-generator.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-sysv-generator.xml
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
     <para><ulink url="http://refspecs.linuxbase.org/LSB_3.1.1/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/iniscrptact.html">LSB headers</ulink>
     in SysV init scripts are interpreted, and the ordering specified
     in the header is turned into dependencies between the generated
-    unit and other units. LSB facilities
+    unit and other units. The LSB facilities
     <literal>$remote_fs</literal>, <literal>$network</literal>,
     <literal>$named</literal>, <literal>$portmap</literal>,
     <literal>$time</literal> are supported and will be turned into
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
 
     <para>SysV runlevels have corresponding systemd targets
     (<filename>runlevel<replaceable>X</replaceable>.target</filename>).
-    Wrapper unit that is generated will be wanted by those targets
+    The wrapper unit that is generated will be wanted by those targets
     which correspond to runlevels for which the script is
     enabled.</para>
 
diff --git a/man/systemd-timesyncd.service.xml b/man/systemd-timesyncd.service.xml
index 01ed0b8149..6ec384313b 100644
--- a/man/systemd-timesyncd.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-timesyncd.service.xml
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
         <term><filename>/var/lib/systemd/clock</filename></term>
 
         <listitem>
-          <para>This file contains the timestamp of last successful
+          <para>This file contains the timestamp of the last successful
           synchronization.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
diff --git a/man/systemd-update-done.service.xml b/man/systemd-update-done.service.xml
index d65f175418..a2dad39f01 100644
--- a/man/systemd-update-done.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-update-done.service.xml
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
     service that is invoked as part of the first boot after the vendor
     operating system resources in <filename>/usr</filename> have been
     updated. This is useful to implement offline updates of
-    <filename>/usr</filename> which might requires updates to
+    <filename>/usr</filename> which might require updates to
     <filename>/etc</filename> or <filename>/var</filename> on the
     following boot.</para>
 
diff --git a/man/systemd.automount.xml b/man/systemd.automount.xml
index 9561590c5c..26a0f291dd 100644
--- a/man/systemd.automount.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.automount.xml
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@
       </varlistentry>
       <varlistentry>
         <term><varname>TimeoutIdleSec=</varname></term>
-        <listitem><para>Configures an idleness timeout. Once the mount has been
+        <listitem><para>Configures an idle timeout. Once the mount has been
         idle for the specified time, systemd will attempt to unmount. Takes a
         unit-less value in seconds, or a time span value such as "5min 20s".
         Pass 0 to disable the timeout logic. The timeout is disabled by
diff --git a/man/systemd.exec.xml b/man/systemd.exec.xml
index 9f7d83a062..b49fc21cc5 100644
--- a/man/systemd.exec.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.exec.xml
@@ -493,7 +493,7 @@
       </varlistentry>
       <varlistentry>
         <term><varname>SyslogLevel=</varname></term>
-        <listitem><para>Default syslog level to use when logging to
+        <listitem><para>The default syslog level to use when logging to
         syslog or the kernel log buffer. One of
         <option>emerg</option>,
         <option>alert</option>,
@@ -951,13 +951,13 @@
          invoked process must implement a
          <command>getty</command>-compatible utmp/wtmp logic. If
          <literal>login</literal> is set, first an
-         <constant>INIT_PROCESS</constant> entry, followed by an
+         <constant>INIT_PROCESS</constant> entry, followed by a
          <constant>LOGIN_PROCESS</constant> entry is generated. In
          this case, the invoked process must implement a <citerefentry
          project='die-net'><refentrytitle>login</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>-compatible
          utmp/wtmp logic. If <literal>user</literal> is set, first an
          <constant>INIT_PROCESS</constant> entry, then a
-         <constant>LOGIN_PROCESS</constant> entry and finally an
+         <constant>LOGIN_PROCESS</constant> entry and finally a
          <constant>USER_PROCESS</constant> entry is generated. In this
          case, the invoked process may be any process that is suitable
          to be run as session leader. Defaults to
diff --git a/man/systemd.generator.xml b/man/systemd.generator.xml
index b475ecd01d..72a2cece2b 100644
--- a/man/systemd.generator.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.generator.xml
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
     dynamically into native unit files.</para>
 
     <para>Generators are loaded from a set of paths determined during
-    compilation, listed above. System and user generators are loaded
+    compilation, as listed above. System and user generators are loaded
     from directories with names ending in
     <filename>system-generators/</filename> and
     <filename>user-generators/</filename>, respectively. Generators
@@ -169,14 +169,14 @@
             or <command>systemd</command> itself (this means: no
             <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>!). They
             can however rely on the most basic kernel functionality to
-            be available, including mounted <filename>/sys</filename>,
+            be available, including a mounted <filename>/sys</filename>,
             <filename>/proc</filename>, <filename>/dev</filename>.
           </para>
         </listitem>
 
         <listitem>
           <para>
-            Units written by generators are removed when configuration
+            Units written by generators are removed when the configuration
             is reloaded. That means the lifetime of the generated
             units is closely bound to the reload cycles of
             <command>systemd</command> itself.
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@
           <para>
             If you are careful, you can implement generators in shell
             scripts. We do recommend C code however, since generators
-            delay are executed synchronously and hence delay the
+            are executed synchronously and hence delay the
             entire boot if they are slow.
           </para>
         </listitem>
diff --git a/man/systemd.link.xml b/man/systemd.link.xml
index 08e097e1a8..29b837834c 100644
--- a/man/systemd.link.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.link.xml
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
     name in <filename>/usr/lib</filename>. This can be used to
     override a system-supplied link file with a local file if needed.
     As a special case, an empty file (file size 0) or symlink with the
-    same name pointing to <filename>/dev/null</filename> disable the
+    same name pointing to <filename>/dev/null</filename> disables the
     configuration file entirely (it is "masked").</para>
 
     <para>The link file contains a <literal>[Match]</literal> section,
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
                 generated which is guaranteed to be the same on every
                 boot for the given machine and the given device, but
                 which is otherwise random. This feature depends on ID_NET_NAME_*
-                properties existing for the link. On hardware where these
+                properties to exist for the link. On hardware where these
                 properties are not set, the generation of a persistent MAC address
                 will fail.</para>
               </listitem>
diff --git a/man/systemd.mount.xml b/man/systemd.mount.xml
index 2278154052..dd6b7a51a8 100644
--- a/man/systemd.mount.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.mount.xml
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@
       <varlistentry>
         <term><option>x-systemd.idle-timeout=</option></term>
 
-        <listitem><para>Configures the idleness timeout of the
+        <listitem><para>Configures the idle timeout of the
         automount unit. See <varname>TimeoutIdleSec=</varname> in
         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.automount</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
         for details.</para></listitem>
@@ -192,13 +192,13 @@
         <listitem><para>Configure how long systemd should wait for a
         device to show up before giving up on an entry from
         <filename>/etc/fstab</filename>. Specify a time in seconds or
-        explicitly append a unit as <literal>s</literal>,
+        explicitly append a unit such as <literal>s</literal>,
         <literal>min</literal>, <literal>h</literal>,
         <literal>ms</literal>.</para>
 
         <para>Note that this option can only be used in
         <filename>/etc/fstab</filename>, and will be
-        ignored when part of <varname>Options=</varname>
+        ignored when part of the <varname>Options=</varname>
         setting in a unit file.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@
         <filename>local-fs.target</filename> or
         <filename>remote-fs.target</filename>. This means that it will
         not be mounted automatically during boot, unless it is pulled
-        in by some other unit. Option <option>auto</option> has the
+        in by some other unit. The <option>auto</option> option has the
         opposite meaning and is the default.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -325,11 +325,11 @@
 
       <varlistentry>
         <term><varname>SmackFileSystemRootLabel=</varname></term>
-        <listitem><para>Takes a string for the smack label.
+        <listitem><para>Takes a string for the SMACK label.
         This option specifies the label to assign the root of the
-        file system if it lacks the Smack extended attribute.
+        file system if it lacks the SMACK extended attribute.
         Note that this option will be ignored if kernel does not
-        support the Smack feature.
+        support the SMACK feature.
         See <ulink
         url="https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/security/Smack.txt">Smack.txt</ulink>
         for details. </para></listitem>
diff --git a/man/systemd.netdev.xml b/man/systemd.netdev.xml
index f7ad1a1b9b..76dee8ea34 100644
--- a/man/systemd.netdev.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.netdev.xml
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
     override a system-supplied configuration file with a local file if
     needed. As a special case, an empty file (file size 0) or symlink
     with the same name pointing to <filename>/dev/null</filename>
-    disable the configuration file entirely (it is "masked").</para>
+    disables the configuration file entirely (it is "masked").</para>
   </refsect1>
 
   <refsect1>
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
           <entry>A bond device is an aggregation of all its slave devices. See <ulink url="https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt">Linux Ethernet Bonding Driver HOWTO</ulink> for details.Local configuration</entry></row>
 
           <row><entry><varname>bridge</varname></entry>
-          <entry>A bridge device is a software switch, each of its slave devices and the bridge itself are ports of the switch.</entry></row>
+          <entry>A bridge device is a software switch, and each of its slave devices and the bridge itself are ports of the switch.</entry></row>
 
           <row><entry><varname>dummy</varname></entry>
           <entry>A dummy device drops all packets sent to it.</entry></row>
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@
           <entry>A persistent Level 3 tunnel between a network device and a device node.</entry></row>
 
           <row><entry><varname>veth</varname></entry>
-          <entry>An ethernet tunnel between a pair of network devices.</entry></row>
+          <entry>An Ethernet tunnel between a pair of network devices.</entry></row>
 
           <row><entry><varname>vlan</varname></entry>
           <entry>A VLAN is a stacked device which receives packets from its underlying device based on VLAN tagging. See <ulink url="http://www.ieee802.org/1/pages/802.1Q.html">IEEE 802.1Q</ulink> for details.</entry></row>
@@ -282,13 +282,13 @@
 
       <para>The <literal>[Bridge]</literal> section only applies for
       netdevs of kind <literal>bridge</literal>, and accepts the
-      following key:</para>
+      following keys:</para>
 
       <variablelist class='network-directives'>
         <varlistentry>
           <term><varname>HelloTimeSec=</varname></term>
           <listitem>
-            <para>HelloTimeSec specifies the number of seconds a hello packet is
+            <para>HelloTimeSec specifies the number of seconds between two hello packets
             sent out by the root bridge and the designated bridges. Hello packets are
             used to communicate information about the topology throughout the entire
             bridged local area network.</para>
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@
       <varlistentry>
         <term><varname>ARPProxy=</varname></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>A boolean. When true, enables ARP proxy.</para>
+          <para>A boolean. When true, enables ARP proxying.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
       <varlistentry>
@@ -449,14 +449,14 @@
       <varlistentry>
         <term><varname>L3MissNotification=</varname></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>A boolean. When true, enables netlink IP ADDR miss
+          <para>A boolean. When true, enables netlink IP address miss
           notifications.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
       <varlistentry>
         <term><varname>RouteShortCircuit=</varname></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>A boolean. When true, route short circuit is turned
+          <para>A boolean. When true, route short circuiting is turned
           on.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -549,14 +549,14 @@
       <varlistentry>
         <term><varname>IPv6FlowLabel=</varname></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>Configures The 20-bit Flow Label (see <ulink url="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6437">
+          <para>Configures the 20-bit flow label (see <ulink url="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6437">
           RFC 6437</ulink>) field in the IPv6 header (see <ulink url="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2460">
-          RFC 2460</ulink>), is used by a node to label packets of a flow.
-          It's only used for IPv6 Tunnels.
-          A Flow Label of zero is used to indicate packets that have
-          not been labeled. Takes following values.
-          When <literal>inherit</literal> it uses the original flowlabel,
-          or can be configured to any value between 0 to 0xFFFFF.</para>
+          RFC 2460</ulink>), which is used by a node to label packets of a flow.
+          It is only used for IPv6 tunnels.
+          A flow label of zero is used to indicate packets that have
+          not been labeled.
+          It can be configured to a value in the range 0–0xFFFFF, or be
+          set to <literal>inherit</literal>, in which case the original flowlabel is used.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
       <varlistentry>
@@ -587,7 +587,7 @@
       <varlistentry>
         <term><varname>Mode=</varname></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>An <literal>ip6tnl</literal> tunnels can have three
+          <para>An <literal>ip6tnl</literal> tunnel can be in one of three
           modes
           <literal>ip6ip6</literal> for IPv6 over IPv6,
           <literal>ipip6</literal> for IPv4 over IPv6 or
@@ -602,7 +602,7 @@
 
       <para>The <literal>[Peer]</literal> section only applies for
       netdevs of kind <literal>veth</literal> and accepts the
-      following key:</para>
+      following keys:</para>
 
       <variablelist class='network-directives'>
         <varlistentry>
@@ -777,9 +777,9 @@
         <term><varname>LearnPacketIntervalSec=</varname></term>
         <listitem>
           <para>Specifies the number of seconds between instances where the bonding
-          driver sends learning packets to each slaves peer switch.
-          The valid range is 1–0x7fffffff; the default value is 1. This Option
-          has effect only in balance-tlb and balance-alb modes.</para>
+          driver sends learning packets to each slave peer switch.
+          The valid range is 1–0x7fffffff; the default value is 1. This option
+          has an effect only for the balance-tlb and balance-alb modes.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
 
@@ -788,8 +788,8 @@
         <listitem>
           <para>Specifies the 802.3ad aggregation selection logic to use. Possible values are
           <literal>stable</literal>,
-          <literal>bandwidth</literal>,
-          <literal>count</literal>
+          <literal>bandwidth</literal> and
+          <literal>count</literal>.
           </para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -797,13 +797,13 @@
       <varlistentry>
         <term><varname>FailOverMACPolicy=</varname></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>Specifies whether active-backup mode should set all slaves to
-          the same MAC address at enslavement or, when enabled, perform special handling of the
+          <para>Specifies whether the active-backup mode should set all slaves to
+          the same MAC address at the time of enslavement or, when enabled, to perform special handling of the
           bond's MAC address in accordance with the selected policy. The default policy is none.
           Possible values are
           <literal>none</literal>,
-          <literal>active</literal>,
-          <literal>follow</literal>
+          <literal>active</literal> and
+          <literal>follow</literal>.
           </para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -817,8 +817,8 @@
           monitoring purposes. Possible values are
           <literal>none</literal>,
           <literal>active</literal>,
-          <literal>backup</literal>,
-          <literal>all</literal>
+          <literal>backup</literal> and
+          <literal>all</literal>.
           </para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -838,7 +838,7 @@
           <para>Specifies the IP addresses to use as ARP monitoring peers when
           ARPIntervalSec is greater than 0. These are the targets of the ARP request
           sent to determine the health of the link to the targets.
-          Specify these values in ipv4 dotted decimal format. At least one IP
+          Specify these values in IPv4 dotted decimal format. At least one IP
           address must be given for ARP monitoring to function. The
           maximum number of targets that can be specified is 16. The
           default value is no IP addresses.
@@ -853,8 +853,8 @@
           in order for the ARP monitor to consider a slave as being up.
           This option affects only active-backup mode for slaves with
           ARPValidate enabled. Possible values are
-          <literal>any</literal>,
-          <literal>all</literal>
+          <literal>any</literal> and
+          <literal>all</literal>.
           </para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -868,8 +868,8 @@
           occurs. This option is designed to prevent flip-flopping between
           the primary slave and other slaves.  Possible values are
           <literal>always</literal>,
-          <literal>better</literal>,
-          <literal>failure</literal>
+          <literal>better</literal> and
+          <literal>failure</literal>.
           </para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -893,7 +893,7 @@
           <para>Specify the number of packets to transmit through a slave before
             moving to the next one. When set to 0, then a slave is chosen at
             random. The valid range is 0–65535. Defaults to 1. This option
-            has effect only in balance-rr mode.
+            only has effect when in balance-rr mode.
           </para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -907,7 +907,7 @@
             a peer notification is sent on the  bonding device and each
             VLAN sub-device.  This is repeated at each link monitor interval
             (ARPIntervalSec or MIIMonitorSec, whichever is active) if the number is
-            greater than 1. The valid range is 0–255. Default value is 1.
+            greater than 1. The valid range is 0–255. The default value is 1.
             These options affect only the active-backup mode.
           </para>
         </listitem>
@@ -916,8 +916,8 @@
       <varlistentry>
         <term><varname>AllSlavesActive=</varname></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para> A boolean. Specifies that duplicate frames (received on inactive ports)
-          should be dropped false or delivered true. Normally, bonding will drop
+          <para>A boolean. Specifies that duplicate frames (received on inactive ports)
+          should be dropped when false, or delivered when true. Normally, bonding will drop
           duplicate frames (received on inactive ports), which is desirable for
           most users. But there are some times it is nice to allow duplicate
           frames to be delivered. The default value is false (drop duplicate frames
diff --git a/man/systemd.network.xml b/man/systemd.network.xml
index d649b2c567..50f3810ce0 100644
--- a/man/systemd.network.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.network.xml
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
     override a system-supplied configuration file with a local file if
     needed. As a special case, an empty file (file size 0) or symlink
     with the same name pointing to <filename>/dev/null</filename>
-    disable the configuration file entirely (it is "masked").</para>
+    disables the configuration file entirely (it is "masked").</para>
   </refsect1>
 
   <refsect1>
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@
           <term><varname>IPv6Token=</varname></term>
           <listitem>
             <para>An IPv6 address with the top 64 bits unset. When set, indicates the
-            64 bits interface part of SLAAC IPv6 addresses for this link. By default,
+            64-bit interface part of SLAAC IPv6 addresses for this link. By default,
             it is autogenerated.</para>
           </listitem>
         </varlistentry>
@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@
         </varlistentry>
         <varlistentry>
           <term><varname>IPv6AcceptRouterAdvertisements=</varname></term>
-          <listitem><para>Force the setting of <filename>accept_ra</filename>
+          <listitem><para>Force the setting of the <filename>accept_ra</filename>
           (router advertisements) setting for the interface.
           When unset, the kernel default is used, and router
           advertisements are accepted only when local forwarding
@@ -427,8 +427,8 @@
         </varlistentry>
         <varlistentry>
           <term><varname>IPv6DuplicateAddressDetection=</varname></term>
-          <listitem><para>Configures amount of IPv6 Duplicate
-          Address Detection probes to se(DAD). Defaults to unset.
+          <listitem><para>Configures the amount of IPv6 Duplicate
+          Address Detection (DAD) probes to send. Defaults to unset.
         </para></listitem>
         </varlistentry>
         <varlistentry>
@@ -556,7 +556,7 @@
         <varlistentry>
           <term><varname>Scope=</varname></term>
           <listitem>
-            <para>The scope of the route. One of the values <literal>global</literal>,
+            <para>The scope of the route, which can be <literal>global</literal>,
             <literal>link</literal> or <literal>host</literal>. Defaults to
             <literal>global</literal>.</para>
           </listitem>
@@ -648,7 +648,7 @@
           <listitem>
             <para>When true (the default), the static routes will be
             requested from the DHCP server and added to the routing
-            table with metric of 1024.</para>
+            table with a metric of 1024.</para>
           </listitem>
         </varlistentry>
 
@@ -770,7 +770,7 @@
         into account that acquire DNS or NTP server information at a
         later point. DNS server propagation does not take
         <filename>/etc/resolv.conf</filename> into account. Also, note
-        that the leases are not refreshed if uplink network
+        that the leases are not refreshed if the uplink network
         configuration changes. To ensure clients regularly acquire the
         most current uplink DNS server information, it is thus
         advisable to shorten the DHCP lease time via
@@ -844,7 +844,7 @@
           <term><varname>FastLeave=</varname></term>
           <listitem>
             <para>A boolean. This flag allows the bridge to immediately stop multicast
-            traffic on a port that receives IGMP Leave message. It is only used with
+            traffic on a port that receives an IGMP Leave message. It is only used with
             IGMP snooping if enabled on the bridge. Defaults to off.</para>
           </listitem>
         </varlistentry>
@@ -860,7 +860,7 @@
           <term><varname>Cost=</varname></term>
           <listitem>
             <para>Sets the "cost" of sending packets of this interface.
-            Each port in a bridge may have different speed and the cost
+            Each port in a bridge may have a different speed and the cost
             is used to decide which link to use. Faster interfaces
             should have lower costs.</para>
           </listitem>
@@ -885,8 +885,8 @@
         <varlistentry>
           <term><varname>VLANId=</varname></term>
           <listitem>
-            <para>The VLAN Id for the new static MAC table entry. If
-            omitted, no VLAN Id info is appended to the new static MAC
+            <para>The VLAN ID for the new static MAC table entry. If
+            omitted, no VLAN ID info is appended to the new static MAC
             table entry.</para>
           </listitem>
         </varlistentry>
diff --git a/man/systemd.nspawn.xml b/man/systemd.nspawn.xml
index 99b5889484..c2b7a40ec1 100644
--- a/man/systemd.nspawn.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.nspawn.xml
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
     to specific containers. The syntax of these files is inspired by
     <filename>.desktop</filename> files following the <ulink
     url="http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/">XDG
-    Desktop Entry Specification</ulink>, which are in turn inspired by
+    Desktop Entry Specification</ulink>, which in turn are inspired by
     Microsoft Windows <filename>.ini</filename> files.</para>
 
     <para>Boolean arguments used in these settings files can be
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@
     host (such as files or directories) are ignored. To which options
     this applies is documented below.</para>
 
-    <para>Persistent settings file created and maintained by the
+    <para>Persistent settings files created and maintained by the
     administrator (and thus trusted) should be placed in
     <filename>/etc/systemd/nspawn/</filename>, while automatically
     downloaded (and thus potentially untrusted) settings files are
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@
     files acquired from the image vendor, it is recommended to copy the
     settings files into <filename>/etc/systemd/nspawn/</filename> and
     edit them there, so that the privileged options become
-    available. The precise algorithm how the files are searched and
+    available. The precise algorithm for how the files are searched and
     interpreted may be configured with
     <command>systemd-nspawn</command>'s <option>--settings=</option>
     switch, see
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@
       <varlistentry>
         <term><varname>Boot=</varname></term>
 
-        <listitem><para>Takes a boolean argument, defaults to off. If
+        <listitem><para>Takes a boolean argument, which defaults to off. If
         enabled, <command>systemd-nspawn</command> will automatically
         search for an <filename>init</filename> executable and invoke
         it. In this case, the specified parameters using
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@
       <varlistentry>
         <term><varname>ReadOnly=</varname></term>
 
-        <listitem><para>Takes a boolean argument, defaults to off. If
+        <listitem><para>Takes a boolean argument, which defaults to off. If
         specified, the container will be run with a read-only file
         system. This setting corresponds to the
         <option>--read-only</option> command line
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@
       <varlistentry>
         <term><varname>Private=</varname></term>
 
-        <listitem><para>Takes a boolean argument, defaults to off. If
+        <listitem><para>Takes a boolean argument, which defaults to off. If
         enabled, the container will run in its own network namespace
         and not share network interfaces and configuration with the
         host. This setting corresponds to the
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@
         <term><varname>VirtualEthernet=</varname></term>
 
         <listitem><para>Takes a boolean argument. Configures whether
-        to create a virtual ethernet connection
+        to create a virtual Ethernet connection
         (<literal>veth</literal>) between host and the container. This
         setting implies <varname>Private=yes</varname>. This setting
         corresponds to the <option>--network-veth</option> command
diff --git a/man/systemd.service.xml b/man/systemd.service.xml
index d7c53087f4..4ed087eccb 100644
--- a/man/systemd.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.service.xml
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@
         <term><varname>ExecStart=</varname></term>
         <listitem><para>Commands with their arguments that are
         executed when this service is started. The value is split into
-        zero or more command lines is according to the rules described
+        zero or more command lines according to the rules described
         below (see section "Command Lines" below).
         </para>
 
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@
 
         <para><varname>ExecStartPost=</varname> commands are only run after
         the service has started, as determined by <varname>Type=</varname>
-        (i.e. The process has been started for <varname>Type=simple</varname>
+        (i.e. the process has been started for <varname>Type=simple</varname>
         or <varname>Type=idle</varname>, the process exits successfully for
         <varname>Type=oneshot</varname>, the initial process exits successfully
         for <varname>Type=forking</varname>, <literal>READY=1</literal> is sent
@@ -859,7 +859,7 @@
         <option>reboot-immediate</option> causes immediate execution
         of the
         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>reboot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
-        system call, which might result in data loss. Similar,
+        system call, which might result in data loss. Similarly,
         <option>poweroff</option>, <option>poweroff-force</option>,
         <option>poweroff-immediate</option> have the effect of
         powering down the system with similar semantics. Defaults to
@@ -909,9 +909,9 @@
         <ulink
         url="https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/usb/functionfs.txt">USB
         FunctionFS</ulink> descriptors, for implementation of USB
-        gadget functions. This is is used only in conjunction with a
+        gadget functions. This is used only in conjunction with a
         socket unit with <varname>ListenUSBFunction=</varname>
-        configured. The contents of this file is written to the
+        configured. The contents of this file are written to the
         <filename>ep0</filename> file after it is
         opened.</para></listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -1216,7 +1216,7 @@ WantedBy=multi-user.target</programlisting>
       then execute another to shut it down, but no process remains
       active while they are considered "started". Network
       configuration can sometimes fall into this category. Another use
-      case is if a oneshot service shall not be executed a each time
+      case is if a oneshot service shall not be executed each time
       when they are pulled in as a dependency, but only the first
       time.</para>
 
diff --git a/man/systemd.socket.xml b/man/systemd.socket.xml
index 936c5ed102..e8972a2902 100644
--- a/man/systemd.socket.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.socket.xml
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@
         implementation of USB gadget functions. This expects an
         absolute file system path as the argument. Behavior otherwise
         is very similar to the <varname>ListenFIFO=</varname>
-        directive above. Use this to open FunctionFS endpoint
+        directive above. Use this to open the FunctionFS endpoint
         <filename>ep0</filename>. When using this option, the
         activated service has to have the
         <varname>USBFunctionDescriptors=</varname> and
@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@
         activation.</para>
 
         <para>For IPv4 and IPv6 connections, the <varname>REMOTE_ADDR</varname>
-        environment variable will contain the remote IP, and <varname>REMOTE_PORT</varname>
+        environment variable will contain the remote IP address, and <varname>REMOTE_PORT</varname>
         will contain the remote port. This is the same as the format used by CGI.
         For SOCK_RAW, the port is the IP protocol.</para></listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -432,7 +432,7 @@
         <term><varname>KeepAliveIntervalSec=</varname></term>
         <listitem><para>Takes time (in seconds) as argument between
         individual keepalive probes, if the socket option SO_KEEPALIVE
-        has been set on this socket seconds as argument. This controls
+        has been set on this socket. This controls
         the TCP_KEEPINTVL socket option (see
         <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>socket</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
         and the <ulink
@@ -443,7 +443,7 @@
 
       <varlistentry>
         <term><varname>KeepAliveProbes=</varname></term>
-        <listitem><para>Takes integer as argument. It's the number of
+        <listitem><para>Takes an integer as argument. It's the number of
         unacknowledged probes to send before considering the
         connection dead and notifying the application layer. This
         controls the TCP_KEEPCNT socket option (see
@@ -752,12 +752,12 @@
         <term><varname>FileDescriptorName=</varname></term>
         <listitem><para>Assigns a name to all file descriptors this
         socket unit encapsulates. This is useful to help activated
-        services to identify specific file descriptors, if multiple
+        services identify specific file descriptors, if multiple fds
         are passed. Services may use the
         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_listen_fds_with_names</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
         call to acquire the names configured for the received file
         descriptors. Names may contain any ASCII character, but must
-        exclude control characters or <literal>:</literal>, and must
+        exclude control characters and <literal>:</literal>, and must
         be at most 255 characters in length. If this setting is not
         used, the file descriptor name defaults to the name of the
         socket unit, including its <filename>.socket</filename>
diff --git a/man/systemd.swap.xml b/man/systemd.swap.xml
index cb1d58b577..bc9ef826e1 100644
--- a/man/systemd.swap.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.swap.xml
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@
         will not be added as a dependency for
         <filename>swap.target</filename>. This means that it will not
         be activated automatically during boot, unless it is pulled in
-        by some other unit. Option <option>auto</option> has the
+        by some other unit. The <option>auto</option> option has the
         opposite meaning and is the default.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -177,8 +177,8 @@
 
         <listitem><para>Swap priority to use when activating the swap
         device or file. This takes an integer. This setting is
-        optional and ignored when priority is set by <option>pri=</option> in the
-        <varname>Options=</varname> option.</para></listitem>
+        optional and ignored when the priority is set by <option>pri=</option> in the
+        <varname>Options=</varname> key.</para></listitem>
       </varlistentry>
 
       <varlistentry>
diff --git a/man/systemd.time.xml b/man/systemd.time.xml
index c96e19e13f..135eb35f1b 100644
--- a/man/systemd.time.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.time.xml
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@
     placeholders instead of timestamps: <literal>now</literal> may be
     used to refer to the current time (or of the invocation of the
     command that is currently executed). <literal>today</literal>,
-    <literal>yesterday</literal>, <literal>tomorrow</literal> refer to
+    <literal>yesterday</literal>, and <literal>tomorrow</literal> refer to
     00:00:00 of the current day, the day before, or the next day,
     respectively.</para>
 
diff --git a/man/systemd.unit.xml b/man/systemd.unit.xml
index 447774eaac..a9d49ef201 100644
--- a/man/systemd.unit.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.unit.xml
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@
   <refsect1>
     <title>[Unit] Section Options</title>
 
-    <para>Unit file may include a [Unit] section, which carries
+    <para>The unit file may include a [Unit] section, which carries
     generic information about the unit that is not dependent on the
     type of unit:</para>
 
@@ -1025,7 +1025,7 @@
 
         <listitem><para>Similar to the
         <varname>ConditionArchitecture=</varname>,
-        <varname>ConditionVirtualization=</varname>, ... condition
+        <varname>ConditionVirtualization=</varname>, etc., condition
         settings described above, these settings add assertion checks
         to the start-up of the unit. However, unlike the conditions
         settings, any assertion setting that is not met results in
diff --git a/man/systemd.xml b/man/systemd.xml
index ba1d26c4b1..08ce99d0cc 100644
--- a/man/systemd.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.xml
@@ -562,7 +562,7 @@
         <filename>ctrl-alt-del.target</filename> unit. This is mostly
         equivalent to <command>systemctl start
         ctl-alt-del.target</command>. If this signal is received more
-        often than 7 times per 2s, an immediate reboot is triggered.
+        than 7 times per 2s, an immediate reboot is triggered.
         Note that pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del on the console will trigger
         this signal. Hence, if a reboot is hanging, pressing
         Ctrl-Alt-Del more than 7 times in 2s is a relatively safe way
diff --git a/man/sysusers.d.xml b/man/sysusers.d.xml
index ca29486cc0..42b53b2759 100644
--- a/man/sysusers.d.xml
+++ b/man/sysusers.d.xml
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ u root 0 "Superuser" /root</programlisting>
 
     <para>Note that <command>systemd-sysusers</command> will do
     nothing if the specified users or groups already exist, so
-    normally, there no reason to override
+    normally, there is no reason to override
     <filename>sysusers.d</filename> vendor configuration, except to
     block certain users or groups from being created.</para>
   </refsect1>
diff --git a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
index e65937848d..3f6128cb5b 100644
--- a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
+++ b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@
           <varname>+</varname> (the default one) causes the
           attribute(s) to be added; <varname>-</varname> causes the
           attribute(s) to be removed; <varname>=</varname> causes the
-          attributes to set exactly as the following letters. The
+          attributes to be set exactly as the following letters. The
           letters <literal>aAcCdDeijsStTu</literal> select the new
           attributes for the files, see
           <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>chattr</refentrytitle>
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@
           <term><varname>a</varname></term>
           <term><varname>a+</varname></term>
           <listitem><para>Set POSIX ACLs (access control lists). If
-          suffixed with <varname>+</varname>, specified entries will
+          suffixed with <varname>+</varname>, the specified entries will
           be added to the existing set.
           <command>systemd-tmpfiles</command> will automatically add
           the required base entries for user and group based on the
@@ -537,7 +537,7 @@
       <para>The user and group to use for this file or directory. This
       may either be a numeric user/group ID or a user or group
       name. If omitted or when set to <literal>-</literal>, the
-      default 0 (root) is used. For <varname>z</varname>,
+      default 0 (root) is used. For <varname>z</varname> and
       <varname>Z</varname> lines, when omitted or when set to
       <literal>-</literal>, the file ownership will not be
       modified. These parameters are ignored for <varname>x</varname>,
@@ -552,16 +552,16 @@
       delete when cleaning. If a file or directory is older than the
       current time minus the age field, it is deleted. The field
       format is a series of integers each followed by one of the
-      following postfixes for the respective time units:
+      following suffixes for the respective time units:
       <constant>s</constant>,
       <constant>m</constant> or <constant>min</constant>,
       <constant>h</constant>,
       <constant>d</constant>,
       <constant>w</constant>,
-      <constant>ms</constant>,
+      <constant>ms</constant>, and
       <constant>us</constant>,
-      respectively meaning seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks,
-      milliseconds, and microseconds. Full names of the time units can
+      meaning seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks,
+      milliseconds, and microseconds, respectively. Full names of the time units can
       be used too.
       </para>
 
@@ -590,18 +590,18 @@
       <title>Argument</title>
 
       <para>For <varname>L</varname> lines determines the destination
-      path of the symlink. For <varname>c</varname>,
-      <varname>b</varname> determines the major/minor of the device
+      path of the symlink. For <varname>c</varname> and
+      <varname>b</varname>, determines the major/minor of the device
       node, with major and minor formatted as integers, separated by
       <literal>:</literal>, e.g.  <literal>1:3</literal>. For
       <varname>f</varname>, <varname>F</varname>, and
-      <varname>w</varname> may be used to specify a short string that
+      <varname>w</varname>, the argument may be used to specify a short string that
       is written to the file, suffixed by a newline. For
       <varname>C</varname>, specifies the source file or
-      directory. For <varname>t</varname>, <varname>T</varname>,
+      directory. For <varname>t</varname> and <varname>T</varname>,
       determines extended attributes to be set. For
-      <varname>a</varname>, <varname>A</varname>, determines ACL
-      attributes to be set. For <varname>h</varname>,
+      <varname>a</varname> and <varname>A</varname>, determines ACL
+      attributes to be set. For <varname>h</varname> and
       <varname>H</varname>, determines the file attributes to
       set. Ignored for all other lines.</para>
     </refsect2>
diff --git a/man/udev_device_get_syspath.xml b/man/udev_device_get_syspath.xml
index b3062ae4a8..ca9763fedf 100644
--- a/man/udev_device_get_syspath.xml
+++ b/man/udev_device_get_syspath.xml
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@
     <function>udev_device_get_parent_with_subsystem_devtype()</function>
     return a pointer to the parent device. No additional reference
     to this device is acquired, but the child device owns a reference
-    to such parent device. On failure, <constant>NULL</constant>
+    to such a parent device. On failure, <constant>NULL</constant>
     is returned.</para>
 
     <para>On success, <function>udev_device_get_is_initialized()</function>
diff --git a/man/udev_device_new_from_syspath.xml b/man/udev_device_new_from_syspath.xml
index fd695d84b3..11db1a0fab 100644
--- a/man/udev_device_new_from_syspath.xml
+++ b/man/udev_device_new_from_syspath.xml
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@
     and
     <citerefentry><refentrytitle>udev_device_get_sysname</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>)
     and <function>udev_device_new_from_device_id</function> looks up devices based on the provided
-    device id, which is a special string in one of the following four forms:
+    device ID, which is a special string in one of the following four forms:
     <table>
       <title>Device ID strings</title>
 
diff --git a/man/udev_enumerate_scan_devices.xml b/man/udev_enumerate_scan_devices.xml
index 73566f5089..e0b6bfba32 100644
--- a/man/udev_enumerate_scan_devices.xml
+++ b/man/udev_enumerate_scan_devices.xml
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@
     <constant>NULL</constant> is returned.</para>
 
     <para><function>udev_enumerate_get_udev()</function> always
-    returns a pointer to the udev context that this enumerate
+    returns a pointer to the udev context that this enumerated
     object is associated with.</para>
   </refsect1>
 
diff --git a/man/udevadm.xml b/man/udevadm.xml
index ef3ca4a72a..8c1abd2770 100644
--- a/man/udevadm.xml
+++ b/man/udevadm.xml
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@
           <term><option>--name-match=<replaceable>NAME</replaceable></option></term>
           <listitem>
             <para>Trigger events for devices with a matching
-            device path. This options can be specified multiple
+            device path. This option can be specified multiple
             times.</para>
           </listitem>
         </varlistentry>
diff --git a/src/libsystemd-network/lldp-tlv.c b/src/libsystemd-network/lldp-tlv.c
index 0851957ab4..a539b5dfea 100644
--- a/src/libsystemd-network/lldp-tlv.c
+++ b/src/libsystemd-network/lldp-tlv.c
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ int tlv_packet_parse_pdu(tlv_packet *m, uint16_t size) {
 
         p = m->pdu;
 
-        /* extract ethernet header */
+        /* extract Ethernet header */
         memcpy(&m->mac, p, ETH_ALEN);
         p += sizeof(struct ether_header);
 
diff --git a/src/libsystemd-network/sd-dhcp-client.c b/src/libsystemd-network/sd-dhcp-client.c
index 57fc8216c3..137537253a 100644
--- a/src/libsystemd-network/sd-dhcp-client.c
+++ b/src/libsystemd-network/sd-dhcp-client.c
@@ -1517,7 +1517,7 @@ static int client_receive_message_udp(sd_event_source *s, int fd,
                 expected_hlen = ETH_ALEN;
                 expected_chaddr = (const struct ether_addr *) &client->mac_addr;
         } else {
-               /* Non-ethernet links expect zero chaddr */
+               /* Non-Ethernet links expect zero chaddr */
                expected_hlen = 0;
                expected_chaddr = &zero_mac;
         }
diff --git a/src/libsystemd-network/test-lldp.c b/src/libsystemd-network/test-lldp.c
index 931df7c170..99545d0b8b 100644
--- a/src/libsystemd-network/test-lldp.c
+++ b/src/libsystemd-network/test-lldp.c
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ static int lldp_build_tlv_packet(tlv_packet **ret) {
                 .ether_type = htons(ETHERTYPE_LLDP),
         };
 
-        /* Append ethernet header */
+        /* Append Ethernet header */
         memcpy(&ether.ether_dhost, lldp_dst, ETHER_ADDR_LEN);
         memcpy(&ether.ether_shost, &mac_addr, ETHER_ADDR_LEN);
 
diff --git a/src/nspawn/nspawn.c b/src/nspawn/nspawn.c
index c0b29bf4af..4b7b3e6156 100644
--- a/src/nspawn/nspawn.c
+++ b/src/nspawn/nspawn.c
@@ -209,10 +209,10 @@ static void help(void) {
                "     --network-ipvlan=INTERFACE\n"
                "                            Create a ipvlan network interface based on an\n"
                "                            existing network interface to the container\n"
-               "  -n --network-veth         Add a virtual ethernet connection between host\n"
+               "  -n --network-veth         Add a virtual Ethernet connection between host\n"
                "                            and container\n"
                "     --network-bridge=INTERFACE\n"
-               "                            Add a virtual ethernet connection between host\n"
+               "                            Add a virtual Ethernet connection between host\n"
                "                            and container and add it to an existing bridge on\n"
                "                            the host\n"
                "  -p --port=[PROTOCOL:]HOSTPORT[:CONTAINERPORT]\n"
diff --git a/src/shared/machine-pool.c b/src/shared/machine-pool.c
index 60b1b3092d..4172a63fd0 100644
--- a/src/shared/machine-pool.c
+++ b/src/shared/machine-pool.c
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ int grow_machine_directory(void) {
         if (b.f_bavail > b.f_blocks / 3)
                 return 0;
 
-        /* Calculate how much we are willing to add at maximum */
+        /* Calculate how much we are willing to add at most */
         max_add = ((uint64_t) a.f_bavail * (uint64_t) a.f_bsize) - VAR_LIB_MACHINES_FREE_MIN;
 
         /* Calculate the old size */
diff --git a/src/udev/udev-builtin-net_id.c b/src/udev/udev-builtin-net_id.c
index ef9c398e59..bf5c9c6b77 100644
--- a/src/udev/udev-builtin-net_id.c
+++ b/src/udev/udev-builtin-net_id.c
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
  * http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames
  *
  * Two character prefixes based on the type of interface:
- *   en -- ethernet
+ *   en -- Ethernet
  *   sl -- serial line IP (slip)
  *   wl -- wlan
  *   ww -- wwan
@@ -53,17 +53,17 @@
  * exported.
  * The usual USB configuration == 1 and interface == 0 values are suppressed.
  *
- * PCI ethernet card with firmware index "1":
+ * PCI Ethernet card with firmware index "1":
  *   ID_NET_NAME_ONBOARD=eno1
  *   ID_NET_NAME_ONBOARD_LABEL=Ethernet Port 1
  *
- * PCI ethernet card in hotplug slot with firmware index number:
+ * PCI Ethernet card in hotplug slot with firmware index number:
  *   /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.3/0000:05:00.0/net/ens1
  *   ID_NET_NAME_MAC=enx000000000466
  *   ID_NET_NAME_PATH=enp5s0
  *   ID_NET_NAME_SLOT=ens1
  *
- * PCI ethernet multi-function card with 2 ports:
+ * PCI Ethernet multi-function card with 2 ports:
  *   /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:02:00.0/net/enp2s0f0
  *   ID_NET_NAME_MAC=enx78e7d1ea46da
  *   ID_NET_NAME_PATH=enp2s0f0
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