diff --git a/cook b/cook
index 188bf8988b..5667854069 100755
--- a/cook
+++ b/cook
@@ -442,11 +442,11 @@ Here are the topics that have been cooking in my tree.  Commits
 prefixed with '+' are in 'next' (being in 'next' is a sign that a
 topic is stable enough to be used and is a candidate to be in a
 future release).  Commits prefixed with '-' are only in 'seen', and
-aren't considered "accepted" at all and may be annotated with a URL
+aren't considered "accepted" at all. They may be annotated with a URL
 to a message that raises issues but they are by no means exhaustive.
 A topic without enough support may be discarded after a long period
-of no activity (of course they can be resubmitted when new interests
-arise).
+of no activity (of course, it can be resubmitted when new interest
+arises).
 
 Copies of the source code to Git live in many repositories, and the
 following is a list of the ones I push into or their mirrors.  Some