diff --git a/docs/source/getting-started/spawners-basics.md b/docs/source/getting-started/spawners-basics.md
index 9988c2f8..92d1a895 100644
--- a/docs/source/getting-started/spawners-basics.md
+++ b/docs/source/getting-started/spawners-basics.md
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 # Spawners and single-user notebook servers
 
-Since the single-user server is an instance of `jupyter notebook`, an entire separate
-multi-process application, there are many aspects of that server that can be configured, and a lot
+Since the single-user server is an instance of `jupyter notebook`, an entirely separate
+multi-process application. There are many aspects of that server that can be configured and a lot
 of ways to express that configuration.
 
 At the JupyterHub level, you can set some values on the Spawner. The simplest of these is
 `Spawner.notebook_dir`, which lets you set the root directory for a user's server. This root
-notebook directory is the highest level directory users will be able to access in the notebook
+notebook directory is the highest-level directory users will be able to access in the notebook
 dashboard. In this example, the root notebook directory is set to `~/notebooks`, where `~` is
 expanded to the user's home directory.
 
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ You can also specify extra command line arguments to the notebook server with:
 c.Spawner.args = ['--debug', '--profile=PHYS131']
 ```
 
-This could be used to set the users default page for the single user server:
+This could be used to set the user's default page for the single-user server:
 
 ```python
 c.Spawner.args = ['--NotebookApp.default_url=/notebooks/Welcome.ipynb']
@@ -30,4 +30,4 @@ Since the single-user server extends the notebook server application,
 it still loads configuration from the `jupyter_notebook_config.py` config file.
 Each user may have one of these files in `$HOME/.jupyter/`.
 Jupyter also supports loading system-wide config files from `/etc/jupyter/`,
-which is the place to put configuration that you want to affect all of your users.
+which is the place to put the configuration that you want to affect all of your users.