diff --git a/man2/clone.2 b/man2/clone.2
index 5e5780268..ce55997b5 100644
--- a/man2/clone.2
+++ b/man2/clone.2
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ set_tid_size = 2;
 .in
 .PP
 The PID in the PID namespaces outside the two innermost PID namespaces
-will be selected the same way as any other PID is selected.
+is selected the same way as any other PID is selected.
 .PP
 The
 .I set_tid
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ in the child's memory.
 The store operation completes before the clone call
 returns control to user space in the child process.
 (Note that the store operation may not have completed before the clone call
-returns in the parent process, which will be relevant if the
+returns in the parent process, which is relevant if the
 .BR CLONE_VM
 flag is also employed.)
 .TP
@@ -815,7 +815,7 @@ which is signaled when the child terminates, so that
 if
 .B CLONE_PARENT
 is set, then the parent of the calling process, rather than the
-calling process itself, will be signaled.
+calling process itself, is signaled.
 .IP
 The
 .B CLONE_PARENT
@@ -1131,7 +1131,7 @@ signals and the signals that are pending for the calling thread.
 .IP
 If a process-directed signal is delivered to a thread group,
 and the thread group has installed a handler for the signal, then
-the handler will be invoked in exactly one, arbitrarily selected
+the handler is invoked in exactly one, arbitrarily selected
 member of the thread group that has not blocked the signal.
 If multiple threads in a group are waiting to accept the same signal using
 .BR sigwaitinfo (2),
@@ -1198,7 +1198,7 @@ is cleared in the child process.
 On success, the thread ID of the child process is returned
 in the caller's thread of execution.
 On failure, \-1 is returned
-in the caller's context, no child process will be created, and
+in the caller's context, no child process is created, and
 .I errno
 is set to indicate the error.
 .SH ERRORS