diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ Follow the printed link to set your password.
 
 #### Switch to PGroonga
 
-Before proceeding, make sure you set `config :pleroma, :database, pgroonga_enabled` to `false`.
+Before proceeding, make sure that `config :pleroma, :database, pgroonga_enabled` is set to `false`.
 
 ```ex
 config :pleroma, :database,
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ By default, PGroonga uses a bigram tokenizer with prefix matching enabled.
 
 If you're not happy with this, you can change the behavior using the `database set_pgroonga_options` command.
 
-If you want to support Japanese in your instance and do not want to match "東京都" (Tokyo-to) with "京都" (Kyoto), pass `TokenMecab` as the tokenizer.
+If you want to support Japanese in your instance and do not want "東京都" (Tokyo-to) to match "京都" (Kyoto), pass `TokenMecab` as the tokenizer.
 
 ```sh
 podman exec -it akkoma-web \
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ podman exec -it akkoma-web \
   set_pgroonga_options "tokenizer='TokenMecab'"
 ```
 
-If you want to disable prefix matching, e.g. you want "akko" to match "Akko is cute!" but not "Akkoma is cool!", pass `hash_table` as the lexicon type.
+If you want to disable prefix matching, e.g. you want "akko" to match "Akko is cute!" but not "Akkoma is cool!", pass `hash_table` as lexicon type.
 
 ```sh
 podman exec -it akkoma-web \
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ podman exec -it akkoma-web \
 
 If you want to set multiple options, simply concatenate them with a comma.
 
-_Do not add spaces after commas. **Elixir will complain!**_
+_Do not add spaces after commas or Elixir will complain. **You have been warned!**_
 
 ```sh
 podman exec -it akkoma-web \