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@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
 
 ** Additional yylex/yyparse arguments
 
-  The new directive %param declare additional argument to both yylex
-  and yyparse.  The %lex-param, %parse-param, and %param directives
-  support one or more arguments.  Instead of
+  The new directive %param declares additional arguments to both yylex and
+  yyparse.  The %lex-param, %parse-param, and %param directives support one
+  or more arguments.  Instead of
 
     %lex-param   {arg1_type *arg1}
     %lex-param   {arg2_type *arg2}