diff --git a/htroot/IndexMonitor.html b/htroot/IndexMonitor.html
index 05f0804fb..bf3aeab98 100644
--- a/htroot/IndexMonitor.html
+++ b/htroot/IndexMonitor.html
@@ -30,14 +30,14 @@
 #(process)#
 <h2>Indexing Queues Monitor Overview</h2>
 <p>These are monitoring pages for the different indexing queues.<p>
-<p>YaCy knows 5 different ways to aquire web indexes. The details of these processes (1-5) are described within the submenu's listed
+<p>YaCy knows 5 different ways to acquire web indexes. The details of these processes (1-5) are described within the submenu's listed
 above which also will show you a table with indexing results so far. The information in these tables is considered as private,
 so you need to log-in with your administration password.</p>
-<p>Case (6) is a monitor of the local receipt-generator, the opposed case of (1). It contains also a indexing result monitor but is not considered private
+<p>Case (6) is a monitor of the local receipt-generator, the opposed case of (1). It contains also an indexing result monitor but is not considered private
 since it shows crawl requests from other peers.
 </p>
 <p><img src="/env/grafics/indexmonitor.gif"></p>
-<p>The image above illustrates the data flow initiated by web index aquisition.
+<p>The image above illustrates the data flow initiated by web index acquisition.
 Some processes occur double to document the complex index migration structure.
 </p>
 ::
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ The index was crawled and contributed by other peers.</p>
 ::
 <h2>(3) Index Monitor for Index Transfer.</h2>
 <p>The url fetch was initiated and executed by other peers.
-These links here have been transmitted to you because your peer ist most appropriate for storage according to
+These links here have been transmitted to you because your peer is the most appropriate for storage according to
 the logic of the Global Distributed Hash Table.</p>
 <p><i>Use Case:</i> This list may fill if you check the 'Index Receive'-flag on the 'Index Control' page</p>
 ::
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ the logic of the Global Distributed Hash Table.</p>
 such pages are detected by Cookie-Use or POST-Parameters (either in URL or as HTTP protocol)
 and automatically excluded from indexing.</p>
 <p><i>Use Case:</i> You must use YaCy as proxy to fill up this table.
-Set your browser's proxy setting to the same port as given
+Set the proxy settings of your browser to the same port as given
 on the 'Settings'-page in the 'Proxy and Administration Port' field.</p>
 ::
 <h2>(5) Index Monitor for Local Crawling.</h2>