Docs: README: Clean up `udev extras' requirements

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@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ kernel release to work properly. This is currently version 2.6.31.
 Tools and rules shipped by udev are not public API and may change at any time.
 Never call any private tool in /lib/udev from any external application; it might
 just go away in the next release. Access to udev information is only offered
-by udevadm and libudev. Tools and rules in /lib/udev, and the entire content of
-the /dev/.udev directory is private to udev and does change whenever needed.
+by udevadm and libudev. Tools and rules in /lib/udev and the entire contents of
+the /dev/.udev directory are private to udev and do change whenever needed.
 
 Requirements:
   - Version 2.6.27 of the Linux kernel with sysfs, procfs, signalfd, inotify,
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Requirements:
       CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL=y (user ACLs for device nodes)
       CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BSG=y (SCSI devices)
 
-  - Udev will not work with the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED* option.
+  - Udev does not work with the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED* option.
 
   - Unix domain sockets (CONFIG_UNIX) as a loadable kernel module may work,
     but it is not supported.
@@ -41,24 +41,24 @@ Requirements:
     unusable because the kernel may create too many processes in parallel
     so that the system runs out-of-memory.
 
-  - The proc filesystem must be mounted on /proc, the sysfs filesystem must
+  - The proc filesystem must be mounted on /proc, and the sysfs filesystem must
     be mounted at /sys. No other locations are supported by a standard
     udev installation.
 
   - The system must have the following group names resolvable at udev startup:
-      disk, cdrom, floppy, tape, audio, video, lp, tty, dialout, kmem.
-    Especially in LDAP setups, it is required, that getgrnam() is able to resolve
-    these group names with only the rootfs mounted, and while no network is
+      disk, cdrom, floppy, tape, audio, video, lp, tty, dialout, and kmem.
+    Especially in LDAP setups, it is required that getgrnam() be able to resolve
+    these group names with only the rootfs mounted and while no network is
     available.
 
-  - To build all 'udev extras', libacl, libglib2, libusb, usbutils, pciutils,
-    gperf are needed. These dependencies can be disabled with the
-    --disable-extras configure option.
+  - The 'udev extras' has the following dependencies:
+      libacl, libglib2, libusb, usbutils, pciutils, and gperf.
+    These dependencies can be disabled with the --disable-extras configure option.
 
 Setup:
   - At bootup, the /dev directory should get the 'devtmpfs' filesystem
-    mounted. Udev will manage permissions and ownership of the kernel-created
-    device nodes, and possibly create additional symlinks. If needed, udev also
+    mounted. Udev manages the permissions and ownership of the kernel-created
+    device nodes, and udev possibly creates additional symlinks. If needed, udev also
     works on an empty 'tmpfs' filesystem, but some static device nodes like
     /dev/null, /dev/console, /dev/kmsg are needed to be able to start udev itself.
 
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ Operation:
   - All kernel events are matched against a set of specified rules, which
     possibly hook into the event processing and load required kernel
     modules to setup devices. For all devices the kernel exports a major/minor
-    number; if needed, udev will create a device node with the default kernel
+    number; if needed, udev creates a device node with the default kernel
     name. If specified, udev applies permissions/ownership to the device
     node, creates additional symlinks pointing to the node, and executes
     programs to handle the device.