manpages: grammar and spelling
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table.
.SH TARGETS
-A firewall rule specifies criteria for a packet, and a target. If the
+A firewall rule specifies criteria for a packet and a target. If the
packet does not match, the next rule in the chain is the examined; if
it does match, then the next rule is specified by the value of the
target, which can be the name of a user-defined chain or one of the
@@ -155,9 +155,9 @@
.B iptables
can be divided into several different groups.
.SS COMMANDS
-These options specify the specific action to perform. Only one of them
-can be specified on the command line unless otherwise specified
-below. For all the long versions of the command and option names, you
+These options specify the desired action to perform. Only one of them
+can be specified on the command line unless otherwise stated
+below. For long versions of the command and option names, you
need to use only enough letters to ensure that
.B iptables
can differentiate it from all other options.
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@
.TP
.BR "-L, --list " "[\fIchain\fP]"
List all rules in the selected chain. If no chain is selected, all
-chains are listed. As every other iptables command, it applies to the
+chains are listed. Like every other iptables command, it applies to the
specified table (filter is the default), so NAT rules get listed by
.nf
iptables -t nat -n -L