Grammar and typo fixes, general language improvements

from jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl with changes by me

2 files changed, 16 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/usr.bin/m4/m4.1 b/usr.bin/m4/m4.1
index ef78e7c9ca4..cf811850eac 100644
--- a/usr.bin/m4/m4.1
+++ b/usr.bin/m4/m4.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	@(#) $OpenBSD: m4.1,v 1.25 2002/04/28 14:37:12 espie Exp $
+.\"	@(#) $OpenBSD: m4.1,v 1.26 2003/01/05 10:10:44 pvalchev Exp $
 .\"
 .\"
 .Dd January 26, 1993
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ if no arguments are passed.
 .It Ic errprint
 Prints the first argument on the standard error output stream.
 .It Ic esyscmd
-Pass its first argument to a shell and returns the shell's standard output.
+Passes its first argument to a shell and returns the shell's standard output.
 Note that the shell shares its standard input and standard error with
 .Nm
 .It Ic eval
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ returns 16).
 If the second
 argument is not found index returns \-1.
 .It Ic indir
-Indirectly calls the macro whose name is passed as the first arguments,
+Indirectly calls the macro whose name is passed as the first argument,
 with the remaining arguments passed as first, ... arguments.
 .It Ic len
 Returns the number of characters in the first argument.
diff --git a/usr.bin/make/make.1 b/usr.bin/make/make.1
index f9c64fcbee9..5642adaa95d 100644
--- a/usr.bin/make/make.1
+++ b/usr.bin/make/make.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: make.1,v 1.47 2002/08/30 22:59:01 jsyn Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: make.1,v 1.48 2003/01/05 10:10:44 pvalchev Exp $
 .\"	$OpenPackages$
 .\"	$NetBSD: make.1,v 1.18 1997/03/10 21:19:53 christos Exp $
 .\"
@@ -649,9 +649,9 @@ environment variable, or defined at compilation time.
 .El
 .Pp
 Variable expansion may be modified to select or modify each word of the
-variable (where a
+variable (where
 .Dq word
-is whitespace delimited sequence of characters).
+is a whitespace delimited sequence of characters).
 The general format of a variable expansion is as follows:
 .Pp
 .Dl {variable[:modifier[:...]]}
@@ -1053,7 +1053,7 @@ are substituted in the
 inside the body of the for loop.
 The number of words must match the number of iteration variables;
 that is, if there are three iteration variables, the number of words
-must be a multiple a three.
+must be a multiple of three.
 .Pp
 Loops and conditional expressions may nest arbitrarily, but
 they may not cross include file boundaries.
@@ -1112,11 +1112,11 @@ If the target already has commands, the
 target's commands are appended
 to them.
 .It Ic .WAIT
-If special
+If
 .Ic .WAIT
-source is appears in a dependency line, the sources that precede it are
+appears in a dependency line, the sources that precede it are
 made before the sources that succeed it in the line.
-Loops are not being
+Loops are not
 detected and targets that form loops will be silently ignored.
 .El
 .Sh "SPECIAL TARGETS"
@@ -1155,7 +1155,7 @@ A list of suffixes that indicate files that can be included in a source
 file.
 The suffix must have already been declared with
 .Ic .SUFFIXES ,
-any suffix so declared will have the directories on its search path (see
+any suffix so declared will have the directories in its search path (see
 .Ic .PATH )
 placed in the
 .Va .INCLUDES
@@ -1238,7 +1238,7 @@ command in the file.
 .It Ic .SUFFIXES
 Each source specifies a suffix to
 .Nm make .
-If no sources are specified, any previous specified suffices are deleted.
+If no sources are specified, any previously specified suffices are deleted.
 .El
 .Sh ENVIRONMENT
 .Nm
@@ -1290,8 +1290,8 @@ This was removed for POSIX compatibility.
 The internal variable
 .Va MAKE
 is set to the same value as
-.Va .MAKE ,
-support for this may be removed in the future.
+.Va .MAKE .
+Support for this may be removed in the future.
 .Pp
 Most of the more esoteric features of
 .Nm
@@ -1330,9 +1330,9 @@ The evaluation of
 .Ar expression
 in a test is very simple-minded.
 Currently, the only form that works is
-.Ql .if ${VAR} op something
+.Ql .if ${VAR} op something \.
 For instance, you should write tests as
-.Ql .if ${VAR} = "string"
+.Ql .if ${VAR} = "string" ,
 not the other way around, which doesn't work.
 .Pp
 For loops are expanded before tests, so a fragment such as: