clean up comments to be more concise/uniform

[bricejlin]

made some changes to grammar/sentence structure

[parkr]

Thanks! It's curious that you opted out of "the" in these comments. Any particular reason for that?

[bricejlin]

Could be a personal preference, but I find that when not necessary, leaving
out "the" gives people 1 less word to read while still being able to
extract the full meaning of a sentence. I don't like reading that many
'the's :P

[parkr]

Ok, cool. Thanks for the explanation!