diff --git a/docs/source/getting-started/config-basics.md b/docs/source/getting-started/config-basics.md
index 8b4babe6..03495a62 100644
--- a/docs/source/getting-started/config-basics.md
+++ b/docs/source/getting-started/config-basics.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Configuration Basics
 
-The section contains basic information about configuring settings for a JupyterHub
+This section contains basic information about configuring settings for a JupyterHub
 deployment. The [Technical Reference](../reference/index)
 documentation provides additional details.
 
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ that Jupyter uses.
 
 ## Configure using command line options
 
-To display all command line options that are available for configuration:
+To display all command line options that are available for configuration run the following command:
 
 ```bash
     jupyterhub --help-all
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ specific [authenticators](./authenticators-users-basics) and
 [spawners](./spawners-basics) can be set in the configuration file.
 This enables JupyterHub to be used with a variety of authentication methods or
 process control and deployment environments. [Some examples](../reference/config-examples),
-meant as illustration, are:
+meant as illustrations, are:
 
 - Using GitHub OAuth instead of PAM with [OAuthenticator](https://github.com/jupyterhub/oauthenticator)
 - Spawning single-user servers with Docker, using the [DockerSpawner](https://github.com/jupyterhub/dockerspawner)