diff --git a/book/06-github/sections/2-contributing.asc b/book/06-github/sections/2-contributing.asc
index 31f0a5c3..6651daad 100644
--- a/book/06-github/sections/2-contributing.asc
+++ b/book/06-github/sections/2-contributing.asc
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 === Contributing to a Project
 
-Now that our account is setup, let's walk through some details that could be useful in helping you contribute to an existing project.
+Now that our account is set up, let's walk through some details that could be useful in helping you contribute to an existing project.
 
 ==== Forking Projects
 
diff --git a/book/06-github/sections/5-scripting.asc b/book/06-github/sections/5-scripting.asc
index 03e8ed18..c63ef604 100644
--- a/book/06-github/sections/5-scripting.asc
+++ b/book/06-github/sections/5-scripting.asc
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ Hopefully this is fairly simple to follow. In this web hook handler we look thro
 
 In this case you can send a state ('success', 'failure', 'error'), a description of what happened, a target URL the user can go to for more information and a ``context'' in case there are multiple statuses for a single commit. For example, a testing service may provide a status and a validation service like this may also provide a status -- the ``context'' field is how they're differentiated.
 
-If someone opens a new Pull Request on GitHub and this hook is setup, you may see something like <<_commit_status>>.
+If someone opens a new Pull Request on GitHub and this hook is set up, you may see something like <<_commit_status>>.
 
 [[_commit_status]]
 .Commit status via the API.