diff --git a/src/site/apt/index.apt.vm b/src/site/apt/index.apt.vm
index 0e035b7a..0ee0872a 100644
--- a/src/site/apt/index.apt.vm
+++ b/src/site/apt/index.apt.vm
@@ -40,12 +40,12 @@ ${project.name}
 
 Why?
 
-   plexus-utils consisted mostly of code that was forked from various apache projects. 
+   plexus-utils consisted mostly of code that was forked from various Apache projects. 
    maven-shared-utils is based on the original from the Apache sources.
 
 Why not commons?
 
-    We would prefer code to use commons-* code where appropriate, but the plexus-utils became
+    We would prefer code to use commons-* where appropriate, but the plexus-utils became
     slightly incompatible (different) from the commons over the years, so migrating is not
     always a 1:1 operation. Migrating to maven-shared-utils is a 1:1 operation in most cases.
 
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Relation to Commons-*
   classes into our own private package to prevent classpath clashes.
 
   This is the reason why any public API in maven-shared-utils must
-  avoid to expose commons-io classes directly. Most times it's sufficient
-  to just create an empty subclass and expose that instead.
+  avoid exposing commons-io classes directly. Most times it's sufficient
+  to create an empty subclass and expose that instead.
 
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