diff --git a/docs/DEPRECATE.md b/docs/DEPRECATE.md
index 80be68f7d..b7afb3a73 100644
--- a/docs/DEPRECATE.md
+++ b/docs/DEPRECATE.md
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ how your use case cannot be satisfied properly using a workaround.
 
 curl will *require* support for a 64 bit data type (like `long long` or an
 alternative) to build. These days, few systems are used where no such type is
-around so the cost of maintaining this support is increasingly unnecessary to
-spent effort and time on, while supporting 32 bit values for some of those
+around, so it is increasingly unnecessary to spend effort and time on
+maintaining this support. Also, supporting 32 bit values for some of those
 fields is complicated and hard to test.
 
 Adding this requirement will make the code simpler, easier to maintain and the