From e8532bf629526c91947ff6b1b946fbe667e59710 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zeeshan Ahmed Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 06:42:44 +0500 Subject: [PATCH] Fixes #29 grammatical mistakes --- README.md | 17 +++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 8d32aff..1df58ac 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ A regular expression is a pattern that is matched against a subject string from mouthful, you will usually find the term abbreviated as "regex" or "regexp". Regular expression is used for replacing a text within a string, validating form, extract a substring from a string based upon a pattern match, and so much more. -Imagine you are writing an application and you want to set the rules when user choosing their username. We want the username can -contains letter, number, underscore and hyphen. We also want to limit the number of characters in username so it does not look ugly. -We use the following regular expression to validate a username: +Imagine you are writing an application and you want to set the rules for when a user chooses their username. We want to +allow the username to contain letters, numbers, underscores and hyphens. We also want to limit the number of +characters in username so it does not look ugly. We use the following regular expression to validate a username:

Regular expression @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ contains uppercase letter and also it is too short. ## 1. Basic Matchers -A regular expression is just a pattern of letters and digits that we use to perform search in a text. For example, the regular expression +A regular expression is just a pattern of characters that we use to perform search in a text. For example, the regular expression `the` means: the letter `t`, followed by the letter `h`, followed by the letter `e`. 

@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ case-sensitive so the regular expression `The` would not match the string `the`.
 ## 2. Meta Characters
 
 Meta characters are the building blocks of the regular expressions.  Meta characters do not stand for themselves but instead are 
-interpreted in some special way. Some meta characters have a special meaning that are written inside the square brackets. 
+interpreted in some special way. Some meta characters have a special meaning and are written inside square brackets. 
 The meta characters are as follows:
 
 |Meta character|Description|
@@ -271,9 +271,10 @@ expression `(f|c|m)at\.?` means: lowercase letter `f`, `c` or `m`, followed by l
 
 ## 2.8 Anchors
 
-In regular expressions, to check if the matching symbol is the starting symbol or ending symbol of the input string for this purpose
-we use anchors. Anchors are of two types: First type is Caret `^` that check if the matching character is the start character of the 
-input and the second type is Dollar `$` that checks if matching character is the last character of the input string.
+In regular expressions, we use anchors to check if the matching symbol is the starting symbol or ending symbol of the 
+input string. Anchors are of two types: First type is Caret `^` that check if the matching character is the start 
+character of the input and the second type is Dollar `$` that checks if matching character is the last character of the 
+input string.
 
 ### 2.8.1 Caret