diff --git a/reference/misc/functions/pack.xml b/reference/misc/functions/pack.xml
index 37377e97a3..ffbc4db6e4 100644
--- a/reference/misc/functions/pack.xml
+++ b/reference/misc/functions/pack.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.10 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.11 $ -->
 <refentry xml:id="function.pack" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
  <refnamediv>
   <refname>pack</refname>
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@
    <parameter>format</parameter>. 
   </para>
   <para>
-   The idea to this function was taken from Perl and all formatting codes
-   work the same as there, however, there are some formatting codes that are
+   The idea for this function was taken from Perl and all formatting codes
+   work the same as in Perl   However, there are some formatting codes that are
    missing such as Perl's "u" format code.
   </para>
   <para>
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
   </para>
   <para>
    Also note that PHP internally stores <type>integer</type> values as
-   signed values of a machine dependent size. If you give it an unsigned
+   signed values of a machine-dependent size. If you give it an unsigned
    integer value too large to be stored that way it is converted to a
    <type>float</type> which often yields an undesired result.
   </para>