diff --git a/docs/swupd.1 b/docs/swupd.1
index d9b5e867..9738b25d 100644
--- a/docs/swupd.1
+++ b/docs/swupd.1
@@ -400,8 +400,8 @@ Examples:
 Ignores \fB/var\fP or \fB/etc/machine\-id\fP, regardless of
 whether they are directories or something else. In the
 usual case that \fB/var\fP is a directory, also everything
-inside it is ignored because directories get skipped
-during scanning the directory tree.
+inside it is ignored because the directory gets skipped
+while scanning the directory tree.
 .UNINDENT
 .UNINDENT
 .IP \(bu 2