diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 8d50d31b59d625d19d4facf2578b140c6d035da2..e747085ca71b79d5a625767de7e31a2eccd5dc6b 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -29,16 +29,15 @@ if( APPLE )
 endif()
 
 # === Externally provided content ===
-# Set up how the project handle some of its dependenices. Either by ing them
+# Set up how the project handle some of its dependenices. Either by picking them
 # up from the environment, or building them itself.
 include( SetupEigen3 )
 include( SetupXercesC )
 include( SetupJSON )
 
-# Find the dependencies that the project always s up from its environment.
+# Find the dependencies that the project always picks up from its environment.
 find_package( SQLite3 3.7.17 )
 
-
 # === Enable testing functionality
 # NOTE: this must be in the root CMakeLists.txt file
 #       even if the tests are defined in CMake files