diff --git a/man7/unix.7 b/man7/unix.7
index 1ab218b3d..1edcef756 100644
--- a/man7/unix.7
+++ b/man7/unix.7
@@ -315,14 +315,14 @@ defined in
 .SH ERRORS
 .TP
 .B EADDRINUSE
-Selected local address is already taken or file system socket
+The specified local address is already taken or the file system socket
 object already exists.
 .TP
 .B ECONNREFUSED
+The remote address specified by
 .BR connect (2)
-called with a socket object that isn't listening.
-This can happen when
-the remote socket does not exist or the filename is not a socket.
+was not a listening socket.
+This can happen when the target filename is not a socket.
 .TP
 .B ECONNRESET
 Remote socket was unexpectedly closed.
@@ -332,11 +332,11 @@ User memory address was not valid.
 .TP
 .B EINVAL
 Invalid argument passed.
-A common cause is the missing setting of
+A common cause is that the value
 .B AF_UNIX
-in the
+was not specified in the
 .I sun_type
-field of passed addresses or the socket being in an
+field of passed addresses, or the socket was in an
 invalid state for the applied operation.
 .TP
 .B EISCONN