Expand contractions.

3 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/pmake/answers/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/pmake/answers/chapter.sgml
index d4ede45e75..a51d2080e2 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/pmake/answers/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/pmake/answers/chapter.sgml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
     (and in &unix; in general) begin with a period
     (<filename>.ms</filename>, <filename>.c</filename>, etc.).
     Now, <application>PMake</application>'s idea of a suffix is more
-    like English's: it's the characters at the end of a word.  With
+    like English's: it is the characters at the end of a word.  With
     this in mind, one possible solution to this problem goes as
     follows:</para>
 
diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/pmake/basics/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/pmake/basics/chapter.sgml
index 5e96c33a1b..5439d225eb 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/pmake/basics/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/pmake/basics/chapter.sgml
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
 	    <entry>If a colon is used, a target on the line is
 	      considered to be <quote>out-of-date</quote> (and in need
 	      of creation) if any of the sources has been modified
-	      more recently than the target, or the target doesn't
+	      more recently than the target, or the target does not
 	      exist.  Under this operation, steps will be taken to
 	      re-create the target only if it is found to be
 	      out-of-date by using these two rules.<entry>
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
 	    <entry>If a double-colon is used, a target is
 	      <quote>out-of-date</quote> if any of the sources has
 	      been modified more recently than the target, or the
-	      target doesn't exist, or the target has no sources.
+	      target does not exist, or the target has no sources.
 	      If the target is out-of-date according to these rules,
 	      it will be re-created.  This operator also does
 	      something else to the targets, but I will go into that
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ Linking index</screen>
       occurred if one of the shells it invokes returns a non-zero
       status.  When it detects an error,
       <application>PMake</application>'s usual action is to abort
-      whatever it's doing and exit with a non-zero status itself (any
+      whatever it is doing and exit with a non-zero status itself (any
       other targets that were being created will continue being made,
       but nothing new will be started.
       <application>PMake</application> will exit after the last job
@@ -605,7 +605,7 @@ Linking index</screen>
 	<literal>+=</literal> is the same as <literal>=</literal>,
 	because the old value of the variable is sought only in the
 	scope in which the assignment is taking place (for reasons of
-	efficiency that I won't get into here).  <literal>:=</literal>
+	efficiency that I will not get into here).  <literal>:=</literal>
 	and <literal>?=</literal> will work if the  only variables
 	used are in the environment.  <literal>!=</literal> is sort of
 	pointless to use from the command line, since the same effect
diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/pmake/shortcuts/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/pmake/shortcuts/chapter.sgml
index 097b5e9284..f9e0039a58 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/pmake/shortcuts/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/pmake/shortcuts/chapter.sgml
@@ -589,7 +589,7 @@ prog2           : $(PROG2OBJS) .INVISIBLE MAKEINSTALL</programlisting>
 		compile in the same directory along with, and at
 		the same time as, the program.  You again have
 		the problem with ranlib that I mentioned
-		earlier, only this time it's more severe: you can not
+		earlier, only this time it is more severe: you can not
 		just put the ranlib off to the end since the
 		program will need those libraries before it can
 		be re-created.  You can do something like this:
@@ -1080,7 +1080,7 @@ MAKELIB         : .USE
 
 	<listitem>
 	  <para>This is identical to <literal>:M</literal> except
-	    it substitutes  all words that don't match the given
+	    it substitutes  all words that do not match the given
 	    pattern.</para>
 	</listitem>
       </varlistentry>