say what parentheses do

Author: schultzdavid

doc/Language/list.rakudoc

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ elegant system for handling them.
 =head1 Literal lists
 
 Literal L<C<List>|/type/List>s are created with commas and semicolons, B<not>
-with parentheses, so:
+with parentheses (which only group things), so:
 
     1, 2;                # This is two-element list
     our $list = (1, 2);  # This is also a List, in parentheses
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ instead.
 One of the ways C<@>-sigiled variables act like lists is by always supporting
 L<positional subscripting|/language/subscripts>. Anything bound to an
 C<@>-sigiled value must support the L<C<Positional>|/type/Positional> role which
-guarantees that this is going to fail:
+guarantees that the following is going to fail:
 
     my @a := 1; # Type check failed in binding; expected Positional but got Int
 
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ would expect>.
 
 This rule is equivalent to saying that arguments to iterators will not
 flatten, will not de-containerize, and will behave as if a single argument
-has been handled to them, whatever the shape that argument has.
+has been handed to them, whatever the shape that argument has.
 
 =for code
 my @a = 1,2; .say for @a, |@a;     # OUTPUT: «[1 2]␤1␤2␤»
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ my @a = 1,2; .say for $[@a, |@a ]; # OUTPUT: «[[1 2] 1 2]␤»
 In the second case, the single argument is a single element, since we have
 itemized the array. There's an exception to the single argument rule
 L<mentioned in the Synopsis|https://github.com/Raku/old-design-docs/blob/master/S07-lists.pod#The_single_argument_rule>:
-list or arrays with a single element will be flattened:
+lists or arrays with a single element will be flattened:
 
 =for code
 my @a = 1,2; .say for [[@a ]];     # OUTPUT: «1␤2␤»