diff --git a/share/man/man4/linux.4 b/share/man/man4/linux.4
index b404c9e1c04..711ac11e8fc 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/linux.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/linux.4
@@ -61,13 +61,13 @@ under
 .Pa /compat/linux )
 before
 .Pa / .
-For example, when Linux process attempts to open
+For example, when a Linux process attempts to open
 .Pa /etc/passwd ,
 it will first access
 .Pa /compat/linux/etc/passwd ,
 falling back to
 .Pa /etc/passwd
-if the former does not exist.
+if the compat path does not exist.
 This is used to make sure Linux processes load Linux shared libraries
 instead of their similarly-named FreeBSD counterparts, and also
 to provide alternative versions of certain other files and virtual