diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+++ b/README.md
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ func init() {
 ```
 Note: Syslog hook also support connecting to local syslog (Ex. "/dev/log" or "/var/run/syslog" or "/var/run/log"). For the detail, please check the [syslog hook README](hooks/syslog/README.md).
 
-A list of currently known of service hook can be found in this wiki [page](https://github.com/sirupsen/logrus/wiki/Hooks)
+A list of currently known service hooks can be found in this wiki [page](https://github.com/sirupsen/logrus/wiki/Hooks)
 
 
 #### Level logging
@@ -426,14 +426,14 @@ entries. It should not be a feature of the application-level logger.
 
 | Tool | Description |
 | ---- | ----------- |
-|[Logrus Mate](https://github.com/gogap/logrus_mate)|Logrus mate is a tool for Logrus to manage loggers, you can initial logger's level, hook and formatter by config file, the logger will generated with different config at different environment.|
+|[Logrus Mate](https://github.com/gogap/logrus_mate)|Logrus mate is a tool for Logrus to manage loggers, you can initial logger's level, hook and formatter by config file, the logger will be generated with different configs in different environments.|
 |[Logrus Viper Helper](https://github.com/heirko/go-contrib/tree/master/logrusHelper)|An Helper around Logrus to wrap with spf13/Viper to load configuration with fangs! And to simplify Logrus configuration use some behavior of [Logrus Mate](https://github.com/gogap/logrus_mate). [sample](https://github.com/heirko/iris-contrib/blob/master/middleware/logrus-logger/example) |
 
 #### Testing
 
 Logrus has a built in facility for asserting the presence of log messages. This is implemented through the `test` hook and provides:
 
-* decorators for existing logger (`test.NewLocal` and `test.NewGlobal`) which basically just add the `test` hook
+* decorators for existing logger (`test.NewLocal` and `test.NewGlobal`) which basically just adds the `test` hook
 * a test logger (`test.NewNullLogger`) that just records log messages (and does not output any):
 
 ```go
@@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ func TestSomething(t*testing.T){
 
 Logrus can register one or more functions that will be called when any `fatal`
 level message is logged. The registered handlers will be executed before
-logrus performs a `os.Exit(1)`. This behavior may be helpful if callers need
+logrus performs an `os.Exit(1)`. This behavior may be helpful if callers need
 to gracefully shutdown. Unlike a `panic("Something went wrong...")` call which can be intercepted with a deferred `recover` a call to `os.Exit(1)` can not be intercepted.
 
 ```
@@ -486,6 +486,6 @@ Situation when locking is not needed includes:
 
   1) logger.Out is protected by locks.
 
-  2) logger.Out is a os.File handler opened with `O_APPEND` flag, and every write is smaller than 4k. (This allow multi-thread/multi-process writing)
+  2) logger.Out is an os.File handler opened with `O_APPEND` flag, and every write is smaller than 4k. (This allows multi-thread/multi-process writing)
 
      (Refer to http://www.notthewizard.com/2014/06/17/are-files-appends-really-atomic/)