diff --git a/SWIG/README b/SWIG/README
index bc2535962..b0ad2a497 100644
--- a/SWIG/README
+++ b/SWIG/README
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ SWIG-1.3.28 summary:
 - More powerful renaming (%rename) capability.
 - More user friendly warning handling.
 - Add finer control for default constructors and destructors. We discourage
-  the use of the 'nodefault' option, which disable both constructors and
+  the use of the 'nodefault' option, which disables both constructors and
   destructors, leading to possible memory leaks. Use instead 'nodefaultctor'
   and/or 'nodefaultdtor'.
 - Optional automatic copy constructor wrapper generation.
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ SWIG-1.3.28 summary:
   directive (replaces and improves the implicit.i library). 
 - Python threading support added.
 - Support for Ruby bang methods.
-- Better handling of std::string variables.
+- Better default handling of std::string variables.
 - Unified typemap library (UTL) potentially providing core typemaps for all
   scripting languages based on the recently evolving Python typemaps.
 - Python, Ruby, Perl and Tcl use the new UTL.
@@ -98,16 +98,16 @@ SWIG-1.3.28 summary:
 - Python STL support improved, addition of iterators and STL containers of 
   native Python types.
 - Python performance options and improvements, try the -O option to test
-  all of them. Python runtime benchmarks shows upto 20 times better performance
+  all of them. Python runtime benchmarks show upto 20 times better performance
   compared to 1.3.27 and older versions.
-- Python support for 'multi-inheritance' at the python side.
-- Python simplified proxy classes, now swig doesn't need to generate the auxiliar
-  'ClassPtr' clasess.
+- Python support for 'multi-inheritance' on the python side.
+- Python simplified proxy classes, now swig doesn't need to generate the
+  additional 'ClassPtr' classes.
 - Python backward compatibility improved, many projects that used to work
   only with  swig-1.3.21 to swig-1.3.24 are working again with swig-1.3.28
 - Better runtime error reporting.
 - Add the %catches directive to catch and dispatch exceptions.
-- Add the %naturalval directive for more 'natural' variable wrapping.
+- Add the %naturalvar directive for more 'natural' variable wrapping.
 - Add the %allowexcept and %exceptionvar directives to handle exceptions when
   accesing a variable.
 - Add the %delobject directive to mark methods that act like destructors.