diff --git a/letsencrypt-auto b/letsencrypt-auto
index 44c71883c..aec1e81de 100755
--- a/letsencrypt-auto
+++ b/letsencrypt-auto
@@ -47,13 +47,13 @@ if test "`id -u`" -ne "0" ; then
       args=""
       # This `while` loop iterates over all parameters given to this function.
       # For each parameter, all `'` will be replace by `'"'"'`, and the escaped string
-      # will be wrap in a pair of `'`, then append to `$args` string
+      # will be wrapped in a pair of `'`, then appended to `$args` string
       # For example, `echo "It's only 1\$\!"` will be escaped to:
       #   'echo' 'It'"'"'s only 1$!'
       #     │       │└┼┘│
       #     │       │ │ └── `'s only 1$!'` the literal string
       #     │       │ └── `\"'\"` is a single quote (as a string)
-      #     │       └── `'It'`, to be concatenated with the strings followed it
+      #     │       └── `'It'`, to be concatenated with the strings following it
       #     └── `echo` wrapped in a pair of `'`, it's totally fine for the shell command itself
       while [ $# -ne 0 ]; do
         args="$args'$(printf "%s" "$1" | sed -e "s/'/'\"'\"'/g")' "
@@ -201,5 +201,5 @@ fi
 
 # Explain what's about to happen, for the benefit of those getting sudo
 # password prompts...
-echo "Running with virtualenv:" $SUDO $VENV_BIN/letsencrypt "$@"
+echo "Requesting root privileges to run with virtualenv:" $SUDO $VENV_BIN/letsencrypt "$@"
 $SUDO $VENV_BIN/letsencrypt "$@"