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diff --git a/src/part00.rs b/src/part00.rs
index 6469907..d8b4ed7 100644
--- a/src/part00.rs
+++ b/src/part00.rs
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@
 
 //@ ## Getting started
 //@ Let us start by thinking about the *type* of our function. Rust forces us to give the types of
-//@ all arguments, and the return type, before we even start writing the body. In the case of our minimum
-//@ function, we may be inclined to say that it returns a number. But then we would be in trouble: What's
-//@ the minimum of an empty list? The type of the function says we have to return *something*.
-//@ We could just choose 0, but that would be kind of arbitrary. What we need
+//@ all arguments, and the return type, before we even start writing the body. In the case of our
+//@ minimum function, we may be inclined to say that it returns a number. But then we would be in
+//@ trouble: What's the minimum of an empty list? The type of the function says we have to return
+//@ *something*. We could just choose 0, but that would be kind of arbitrary. What we need
 //@ is a type that is "a number, or nothing". Such a type (of multiple exclusive options)
 //@ is called an "algebraic datatype", and Rust lets us define such types with the keyword `enum`.
 //@ Coming from C(++), you can think of such a type as a `union`, together with a field that
@@ -37,20 +37,24 @@ fn vec_min(vec: Vec<i32>) -> NumberOrNothing {
 
     // Now we want to *iterate* over the list. Rust has some nice syntax for iterators:
     for el in vec {
-        // So `el` is al element of the list. We need to update `min` accordingly, but how do we get the current
-        // number in there? This is what pattern matching can do:
+        // So `el` is an element of the list. We need to update `min` accordingly, but how do we
+        // get the current number in there? This is what pattern matching can do:
         match min {
-            // In this case (*arm*) of the `match`, `min` is currently nothing, so let's just make it the number `el`.
+            // In this case (*arm*) of the `match`, `min` is currently nothing, so let's just make
+            // it the number `el`.
             NumberOrNothing::Nothing => {
                 min = NumberOrNothing::Number(el);                  /*@*/
             },
-            // In this arm, `min` is currently the number `n`, so let's compute the new minimum and store it.
+            // In this arm, `min` is currently the number `n`, so let's compute the new minimum and
+            // store it.
             //@ We will write the function `min_i32` just after we completed this one.
             NumberOrNothing::Number(n) => {
                 let new_min = min_i32(n, el);                       /*@*/
                 min = NumberOrNothing::Number(new_min);             /*@*/
             }
         }
+        //@ Notice that Rust makes sure you did not forget to handle any case in your `match`. We
+        //@ say that the pattern matching has to be *exhaustive*.
     }
     // Finally, we return the result of the computation.
     return min;
@@ -70,13 +74,13 @@ fn min_i32(a: i32, b: i32) -> i32 {
 
 // Indeed, we can: The following line tells Rust to take
 // the constructors of `NumberOrNothing` into the local namespace.
-// Try moving that above the function, and removing all the occurrences `NumberOrNothing::`.
+// Try moving that above the function, and removing all the occurrences of `NumberOrNothing::`.
 use self::NumberOrNothing::{Number,Nothing};
 
 // To call this function, we now just need a list. Of course, ultimately we want to ask the user for
 // a list of numbers, but for now, let's just hard-code something.
 
-//@ `vec!` is a *macro* (as you can tell from the `!`) that constructs a constant `Vec<_>` with the given
+//@ `vec!` is a *macro* (as indicated by `!`) that constructs a constant `Vec<_>` with the given
 //@ elements.
 fn read_vec() -> Vec<i32> {
     vec![18,5,7,1,9,27]                                             /*@*/
@@ -108,7 +112,7 @@ pub fn main() {
 // Finally, try `cargo run` on the console to run it.
 
 //@ Yay, it said "1"! That's actually the right answer. Okay, we could have
-//@ computed that ourselves, but that's besides the point. More importantly:
+//@ computed that ourselves, but that's beside the point. More importantly:
 //@ You completed the first part of the course.
 
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