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@@ -2,41 +2,41 @@ sofa-pbrpc
 ==========
 [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/baidu/sofa-pbrpc.svg)](https://travis-ci.org/baidu/sofa-pbrpc)
 
-A light-weight RPC implement of google protobuf RPC framework.
+A light-weight RPC implementation of Google's protobuf RPC framework.
 
 Wiki: https://github.com/baidu/sofa-pbrpc/wiki
 
 ### Features
 * High performace.
-* Easy to use. Refer to sample codes in './sample'.
-* Support sync call and async call. Refer to './sample/echo'.
-* Support three level (service/method/request) timeout. Refer to './sample/timeout_sample'.
-* Support transparent compression. Refer to './sample/compress_sample'.
-* Support mock test. Refer to './sample/mock_sample'.
-* Support network flow control.
-* Support auto connecting and reconnecting.
-* Support keep alive time of idle connections.
-* Support statistics for profiling.
-* Support multi-server load balance and fault tolerance.
-* Support http protocol.
-* Provide web monitor.
-* Provide python client library.
-
-### Dependings
+* Easy to use. Refer to sample code in './sample'.
+* Supports sync call and async call. Refer to './sample/echo'.
+* Supports three level (service/method/request) timeout. Refer to './sample/timeout_sample'.
+* Supports transparent compression. Refer to './sample/compress_sample'.
+* Supports mock test. Refer to './sample/mock_sample'.
+* Supports network flow control.
+* Supports auto connecting and reconnecting.
+* Supports keep alive time of idle connections.
+* Supports statistics for profiling.
+* Supports multi-server load balance and fault tolerance.
+* Supports http protocol.
+* Provides web monitor.
+* Provides python client library.
+
+### Dependencies
 This lib depends on boost-1.53.0 (only need header), protobuf-2.4.1, snappy and zlib:
 * boost - http://www.boost.org/
 * protobuf - http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/
 * snappy - http://code.google.com/p/snappy/
 * zlib - http://zlib.net/
 
-ATTENTION: boost header is only needed when compiling the lib, but no need for user code.
+ATTENTION: boost header is only needed when compiling the lib, but is not needed for user code.
 
 Extrally, './unit-test' and './sample/mock_sample' also depends on gtest:
 * gtest - http://code.google.com/p/googletest/
 
 ### Build
 1. Modify the file './depends.mk' to specify depending libs.<br>
-  The necessary libs is boost, protobuf, snappy, and zlib.
+  The necessary libs are boost, protobuf, snappy, and zlib.
 2. Run 'make' to build sofa-pbrpc.<br>
   The default optimization level is 'O2'.<br>
   To change it, modify the 'OPT' variable in file './Makefile'.
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Extrally, './unit-test' and './sample/mock_sample' also depends on gtest:
 For more details, please refer to the wiki.
 
 ### Sample
-For sample codes, please refer to './sample' and the wiki.
+For sample code, please refer to './sample' and the wiki.
 
 ### Performance
 For performace details, please refer to the wiki.