diff --git a/man7/fanotify.7 b/man7/fanotify.7
index bce70ac36..1736bce79 100644
--- a/man7/fanotify.7
+++ b/man7/fanotify.7
@@ -113,11 +113,12 @@ whether permission for a file access shall be granted.
 For these events, the recipient must write a response which decides whether
 access is granted or not.
 
-An event is removed from the event queue of the fanotify group when it has been
-read.
+An event is removed from the event queue of the fanotify group
+when it has been read.
 Permission events that have been read are kept in an internal list of the
-fanotify group until either a permission decision has been taken by writing to
-the fanotify file descriptor or the fanotify file descriptor is closed.
+fanotify group until either a permission decision has been taken by
+writing to the fanotify file descriptor or the fanotify file descriptor
+is closed.
 .SS Reading fanotify events
 Calling
 .BR read (2)
@@ -401,8 +402,8 @@ in the response structure is not valid.
 The file descriptor
 .I fd
 in the response structure is not valid.
-This may occur when a response for the permission event already has been
-written before.
+This may occur when a response for the permission event has already been
+written.
 .SH VERSIONS
 The fanotify API was introduced in version 2.6.36 of the Linux kernel and
 enabled in version 2.6.37.