[PATCH] Grammar review of documentation

[Bruce Cowan <bcowan fastmail co uk>]

---
 help/C/backup.page     |    6 +++---
 help/C/index.page      |    2 +-
 help/C/input.page      |   26 +++++++++++++-------------
 help/C/merge.page      |   14 +++++++-------
 help/C/reports.page    |    8 ++++----
 help/C/statistics.page |    6 +++---
 6 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

diff --git a/help/C/backup.page b/help/C/backup.page
index 95c8ad0..8cd9618 100644
--- a/help/C/backup.page
+++ b/help/C/backup.page
@@ -3,15 +3,15 @@
       id="backup">
 <info>
   <link type="guide" xref="index"/>
-  <desc>How to back up the activity database.</desc>
+  <desc>How to back up the activity database</desc>
 </info>
 <title>Backup</title>
 
 <p>
-    Activities are stored in an SQLite database, located
+    Activities are stored in a SQLite database, located at
     <file>~/.local/share/hamster-applet/hamster.db</file>.
     The file can be backed up and restored on the go.
-    Application will reload the data automatically after a short while.
+    The application will reload the data automatically after a short while.
 </p>
 <note style="info">
     <p>
diff --git a/help/C/index.page b/help/C/index.page
index 89e2ead..d332219 100644
--- a/help/C/index.page
+++ b/help/C/index.page
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 <section id="this-release">
     <title>What's new in this release</title>
     <p>
-        News go here.
+        News goes here.
     </p>
 </section>
 
diff --git a/help/C/input.page b/help/C/input.page
index fceb32f..827ad4b 100644
--- a/help/C/input.page
+++ b/help/C/input.page
@@ -3,50 +3,50 @@
       id="input">
 <info>
   <link type="guide" xref="index"/>
-  <desc>Tricks to speed up activity entry.</desc>
+  <desc>Tricks to speed up activity entry</desc>
 </info>
 <title>Input</title>
 
 <p>
-    To start tracking, type in activity name in the input box and hit
+    To start tracking, type in the activity name in the input box and hit the
     <key>Enter</key> key.
-    There are few tricks however, that will allow you to specify more detail on
+    There are few tricks that will allow you to specify more detail on
     the fly:
 </p>
 
 <steps>
-    <item><p>Use @ symbol to add category</p></item>
-    <item><p>Everything after a comma "," will be stored in the description field</p></item>
-    <item><p>To specify time on the fly, enter it as first in the input box.</p></item>
+    <item><p>Use the @ symbol to add category</p></item>
+    <item><p>Everything after a comma (,) will be stored in the description field</p></item>
+    <item><p>To specify time on the fly, enter it first in the input box</p></item>
 </steps>
 
 <p>
-    Few examples:
+    A few examples:
 </p>
 <example>
     <code>12:30-12:45 watering flowers</code>
-    <p>Forgot to note the important act of watering flowers over the lunch.</p>
+    <p>Forgot to note the important act of watering flowers over lunch.</p>
 </example>
 <example>
     <code>tomatoes garden, digging holes</code>
     <p>
         Need more tomatoes in the garden. Digging holes is purely informational,
-        so added it as a description
+        so added it as a description.
     </p>
 </example>
 <example>
     <code>-7 existentialism, thinking about the vastness of the universe</code>
     <p>
         Corrected information by informing application that I've been
-        onto something else for last seven minutes. Relative times work
-        only without end times - that is - for the most recent activity.
+        doing something else for the last seven minutes. Relative times work
+        only without end times â?? that is â?? for the most recent activity.
     </p>
 </example>
 
 <p>
     On top of that you can add tags in the tag input field.
-    Tags are delimited by comma. Hitting <key>Tab</key> when the suggestion
-    box shows up, will complete input to the first matching tag.
+    Tags are delimited by a comma. Hitting the <key>Tab</key> when the suggestion
+    box shows up will complete input to the first matching tag.
 </p>
 
 </page>
diff --git a/help/C/merge.page b/help/C/merge.page
index c309b28..49dfd9e 100644
--- a/help/C/merge.page
+++ b/help/C/merge.page
@@ -3,23 +3,23 @@
       id="merge">
 <info>
   <link type="guide" xref="index"/>
-  <desc>Automatic conflict solving.</desc>
+  <desc>Automatic conflict solving</desc>
 </info>
 <title>Splitting activities</title>
 
 <p>
-    <app>Time Tracker</app> does it's best to avoid overlaps in the activities.
-    If you create an activity in the middle of an existing activity. The former
-    will be split into two. In other cases of overlapping - the previous entries
+    <app>Time Tracker</app> does its best to avoid overlaps in activities.
+    If you create an activity in the middle of an existing activity, the former
+    will be split into two. In other cases of overlapping, the previous entries
     will be shrunk.
 </p>
 <note style="info">
     <p>
-        Merging aspect can come handy when entering information for the whole
-        day. Start by entering the first activity and tick the "in progress"
+        Merging can become handy when entering information for the whole
+        day. Start by entering the first activity and check the "in progress"
         check box for the end time. For the next activity again set just the
         start time and mark it as ongoing. Observe how the end time of the
-        previous activity get's adjusted to the start time of the new one.
+        previous activity gets adjusted to the start time of the new one.
         Repeat the process until happy!
     </p>
 </note>
diff --git a/help/C/reports.page b/help/C/reports.page
index 19eaf0f..e7d0e31 100644
--- a/help/C/reports.page
+++ b/help/C/reports.page
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
 
 <p>
     Apart from the HTML format that is offered by default in the Save report
-    dialog, format drop-down allows to choose TSV (Tab Separated Values, good for
-    spreadsheets), XML and iCal formats.
+    dialog, the format drop-down allows you to choose TSV (Tab Separated Values, good for
+    spreadsheets), XML, and iCal formats.
 </p>
 <p>
     For programmatic access, there is D-Bus API, that can be introspected
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@
 
 <note style="info">
     <p>
-        The really fastest way to get the data "out" of the Time Tracker, is by generatic the
+        The fastest way to get the data "out" of the Time Tracker is by generating a
         HTML report, while holding the <key>Ctrl</key> key down, select all the
-        needed cells, and then copy/pasting them in the target application.
+        needed cells, and then copy/paste them into the target application.
     </p>
 </note>
 </page>
diff --git a/help/C/statistics.page b/help/C/statistics.page
index 582a9bb..a70e4db 100644
--- a/help/C/statistics.page
+++ b/help/C/statistics.page
@@ -3,14 +3,14 @@
       id="statistics">
 <info>
   <link type="guide" xref="index"/>
-  <desc>Word on interpretation of statistics.</desc>
+  <desc>Note on interpretation of statistics</desc>
 </info>
 <title>Statistics</title>
 
 <p>
-    The results, that are accessible, via the
+    The results that are accessible via the
     <gui style="button">Show Statistics</gui> link are experimental and
-    they are interpretation of the facts. Interpretation that should be compared
+    they are an interpretation of the facts. This interpretation should be compared
     with your own observations. Patches are welcome.
 </p>
 <p>
-- 
1.7.0


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