diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
index 5b3eb12c8a..ad38f7f39d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ prepended to the filenames in the archive.
 
 'git-archive' behaves differently when given a tree ID versus when
 given a commit ID or tag ID.  In the first case the current time is
-used as modification time of each file in the archive.  In the latter
+used as the modification time of each file in the archive.  In the latter
 case the commit time as recorded in the referenced commit object is
 used instead.  Additionally the commit ID is stored in a global
 extended pax header if the tar format is used; it can be extracted
@@ -48,11 +48,11 @@ OPTIONS
 	Prepend <prefix>/ to each filename in the archive.
 
 <extra>::
-	This can be any options that the archiver backend understand.
+	This can be any options that the archiver backend understands.
 	See next section.
 
 --remote=<repo>::
-	Instead of making a tar archive from local repository,
+	Instead of making a tar archive from the local repository,
 	retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository.
 
 --exec=<git-upload-archive>::
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ EXAMPLES
 git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -)::
 
 	Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the
-	latest commit on the current branch, and extracts it in
+	latest commit on the current branch, and extract it in the
 	`/var/tmp/junk` directory.
 
 git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz::