grammar

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/mount.2 b/lib/libc/sys/mount.2
index d0f32d3c429..252f0e5eb94 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/mount.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/mount.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: mount.2,v 1.16 1999/07/05 06:08:05 aaron Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: mount.2,v 1.17 1999/09/25 21:28:04 pjanzen Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: mount.2,v 1.12 1996/02/29 23:47:48 jtc Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1989, 1993
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ The argument
 .Fa type
 tells the kernel how to interpret
 .Fa data
-(See
+(see
 .Fa type
 below).
 The contents of the filesystem
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ become available through the new mount point
 Any files in
 .Fa dir
 at the time
-of a successful mount are swept under the carpet so to speak, and
+of a successful mount are swept under the carpet, so to speak, and
 are unavailable until the filesystem is unmounted.
 .Pp
 The following
@@ -80,8 +80,8 @@ may be specified to
 suppress default semantics which affect filesystem access.
 .Bl -tag -width MNT_SYNCHRONOUS
 .It Dv MNT_RDONLY
-The filesystem should be treated as read-only;
-Even the super-user may not write on it.
+The filesystem should be treated as read-only:
+even the super-user may not write to it.
 .It Dv MNT_NOATIME
 Do not update the access time on files in the filesystem unless
 the modification or status change times are also being updated.
@@ -92,7 +92,9 @@ Do not honor setuid or setgid bits on files when executing them.
 .It Dv MNT_NODEV
 Do not interpret special files on the filesystem.
 .It Dv MNT_UNION
-Union with underlying filesystem instead of obscuring it.
+Mount in such a way that the contents of the underlying filesystem are
+not (totally) obscured (see
+.Xr mount_union 8 ) .
 .It Dv MNT_SYNCHRONOUS
 All I/O to the filesystem should be done synchronously.
 .El
@@ -180,15 +182,14 @@ Active special devices continue to work,
 but any further accesses to any other active files result in errors
 even if the filesystem is later remounted.
 .Sh RETURN VALUES
-The
 .Fn mount
-returns the value 0 if the mount was successful, otherwise \-1 is returned
+returns the value 0 if the mount was successful; otherwise, \-1 is returned
 and the variable
 .Va errno
 is set to indicate the error.
 .Pp
 .Fn unmount
-returns the value 0 if the unmount succeeded; otherwise \-1 is returned
+returns the value 0 if the unmount was successful; otherwise, \-1 is returned
 and the variable
 .Va errno
 is set to indicate the error.