diff --git a/book/02-git-basics/sections/getting-a-repository.asc b/book/02-git-basics/sections/getting-a-repository.asc
index c3c29ee95..9df060df6 100644
--- a/book/02-git-basics/sections/getting-a-repository.asc
+++ b/book/02-git-basics/sections/getting-a-repository.asc
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ $ git clone https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2
 That creates a directory named `libgit2`, initializes a `.git` directory inside it, pulls down all the data for that repository, and checks out a working copy of the latest version.
 If you go into the new `libgit2` directory that was just created, you'll see the project files in there, ready to be worked on or used.
 
-If you want to clone the repository into a directory named something other than `libgit2`, you can specify that as the next command-line option:
+If you want to clone the repository into a directory named something other than `libgit2`, you can specify the new directory name as an additional argument:
 
 [source,console]
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diff --git a/ch02-git-basics-chapter.asc b/ch02-git-basics-chapter.asc
index 77fff9863..08db2548a 100644
--- a/ch02-git-basics-chapter.asc
+++ b/ch02-git-basics-chapter.asc
@@ -22,5 +22,5 @@ include::book/02-git-basics/sections/aliases.asc[]
 
 === Summary
 
-At this point, you can do all the basic local Git operations – creating or cloning a repository, making changes, staging and committing those changes, and viewing the history of all the changes the repository has been through.
+At this point, you can do all the basic local Git operations -- creating or cloning a repository, making changes, staging and committing those changes, and viewing the history of all the changes the repository has been through.
 Next, we'll cover Git's killer feature: its branching model.