--- monit.1	2011-12-20 12:41:18.000000000 -0800
+++ monit.1.new	2012-04-27 13:27:19.147383743 -0700
@@ -334,12 +334,12 @@
 programs running on localhost. Monit is particular useful for
 monitoring daemon processes, such as those started at system boot
 time from /etc/init.d/. For instance sendmail, sshd, apache and
-mysql. In difference to many monitoring systems, Monit can act if
+mysql. In contrast to many other monitoring systems, Monit can act if
 an error situation should occur, e.g.; if sendmail is not
 running, monit can start sendmail again automatically or if
-apache is using too much resources (e.g. if a DoS attack is in
+apache is using too many resources (e.g. if a DoS attack is in
 progress) Monit can stop or restart apache and send you an alert
-message. Monit can also monitor process characteristics, such as;
+message. Monit can also monitor process characteristics, such as
 how much memory or cpu cycles a process is using.
 .PP
 You can also use Monit to monitor \fBfiles\fR, \fBdirectories\fR and
@@ -1946,14 +1946,14 @@
 \&\fBport:PORT number\fR. The port number to connect to
 .PP
 \&\fBunixsocket:UNIXSOCKET \s-1PATH\s0\fR. Specifies the path to a Unix
-socket. Servers based on Unix sockets, always runs on the local
-machine and does not use a port.
+socket. Servers based on Unix sockets always run on the local
+machine and do not use a port.
 .PP
 \&\fBtype:TYPE {TCP|UDP|TCPSSL}\fR. Optionally specify the socket type
 Monit should use when trying to connect to the port. The
 different socket types are; \s-1TCP\s0, \s-1UDP\s0 or \s-1TCPSSL\s0, where \s-1TCP\s0 is a
 regular stream based socket, \s-1UDP\s0 is a datagram socket and \s-1TCPSSL\s0
-specify that Monit should use a \s-1TCP\s0 socket with \s-1SSL\s0 when
+specifies that Monit should use a \s-1TCP\s0 socket with \s-1SSL\s0 when
 connecting to a port. The default socket type is \s-1TCP\s0. If \s-1TCPSSL\s0
 is used you may optionally specify the \s-1SSL/TLS\s0 protocol to be
 used and the md5 sum of the server's certificate. The \s-1TCPSSL\s0
@@ -2180,7 +2180,7 @@
 in capital and optional statements in [brackets]):
 .PP
 .Vb 5
-\&  IF FAILED URL ULR\-spec
+\&  IF FAILED URL URL\-spec
 \&     [CONTENT {==|!=} "regular\-expression"]
 \&     [TIMEOUT number SECONDS] [[<X>] <Y> CYCLES] 
 \&     THEN action
@@ -3940,7 +3940,7 @@
 \&            subject: The gnu server may be hacked again! }
 .Ve
 .PP
-Note; only the \fBcheck statement\fR is mandatory, the other
+Note: only the \fBcheck statement\fR is mandatory, the other
 statements are optional and the order of the optional statements
 is not important.
 .SH "FILES"
@@ -3972,7 +3972,7 @@
    systems without /var/run).
 .PP
 \&\fI~/.monit.state\fR  
-   Monit save its state to this file and utilize 
+   Monit saves its state to this file and utilizes
    information found in this file to recover from 
    a crash. This is a binary file and its content is 
    only of interest to monit. You may set the location
@@ -4052,8 +4052,7 @@
 .PP
 The syntax (and parser) of the control file was inspired by Eric
 S. Raymond et al. excellent fetchmail program. Some portions of
-this man page does also receive inspiration from the same
-authors.
+this man page also receive inspiration from the same authors.
 .SH "COPYRIGHT"
 .IX Header "COPYRIGHT"
 Copyright (C) 2011 by Tildeslash Ltd. All Rights Reserved. This