diff --git a/INSTALL.txt b/INSTALL.txt
index 3bb8e2b00dc..35f6f7d1d1c 100644
--- a/INSTALL.txt
+++ b/INSTALL.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Drupal requires a web server, PHP4 (4.3.3 or greater) or PHP5
 (http://www.php.net/) and either MySQL (http://www.mysql.com/)
 or PostgreSQL (http://www.postgresql.org/).
 
-NOTE: The Apache web server and MySQL database are strongly recommended;
+NOTE: the Apache web server and MySQL database are strongly recommended;
 other web server and database combinations such as IIS and PostgreSQL
 are possible but tested to a lesser extent.
 
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ INSTALLATION
    this. The following example crontab line will activate the cron
    tasks automatically on the hour:
 
-   0    *   *   *   *   wget -O - -q http://www.example.com/cron.php
+   0   *   *   *   *   wget -O - -q http://www.example.com/cron.php
 
    More information about the cron scripts are available in the admin
    help pages and in the Drupal handbook at drupal.org. Example