diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
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--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -29,12 +29,12 @@ automatically merged when the following conditions are met (in that order):
 * Someone (not the Symfony bot nor the pull request author) approved the pull
   request;
 
-* The pull request author or the reviewer is a "trusted user". A "trusted user"
-  being one of the following:
+* The pull request author or the reviewer is a "trusted user", which means
+  one of the following:
 
-  * A Symfony Core Merger;
+  * a Symfony Core Merger;
 
-  * The user is the Github owner for all modified packages;
+  * the Github owner for all modified packages.
 
 .. _`Symfony Flex`: https://github.com/symfony/flex
 .. _`Symfony recipes`: https://github.com/symfony/recipes