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@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@ nghttp2 - HTTP/2 C Library
 This is an implementation of Hypertext Transfer Protocol version 2
 in C.
 
-The framing layer of HTTP/2 is implemented as form of reusable C
+The framing layer of HTTP/2 is implemented as a form of reusable C
 library.  On top of that, we have implemented HTTP/2 client, server
-and proxy.  Also we have developed load test/benchmarking tool for
+and proxy.  We have also developed load test and benchmarking tool for
 HTTP/2 and SPDY.
 
-HPACK encoding and decoding are available as public API.
+HPACK encoder and decoder are available as public API.
 
 The experimental high level C++ library is also available.