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 # Redox C Library (relibc)
 
-relibc is a portable C standard library written in Rust and is under heavy development, this library contain the following items:
+relibc is a portable C standard library written in Rust and is under heavy development, this library contains the following items:
 
 - C, Linux, BSD functions and extensions
 - POSIX compatibility layer
@@ -121,9 +121,9 @@ Relibc has a test suite that also runs every time a new commit get pushed. You c
 
 Couple of notes:
 
-- Relibc and its tests will rebuild if files changed, however switching between arch or host requires you to run `make clean`
+- Relibc and its tests will rebuild if files are changed, however switching between arch or host requires you to run `make clean`
 - Redoxer is needed to run tests for Redox without `--host`. You can install it using `cargo install redoxer`
-- Tests can hangs, the test runner can anticipate this, assuming the kernel doesn't hang too.
+- Tests can hang, the test runner can anticipate this, assuming the kernel doesn't hang too.
 
 ## Issues