diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6cc644b..b26a6ef 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -65,13 +65,13 @@ Tarballs created with mkstage4 can be extracted with:
 tar xvjpf archive_name.tar.bz2
 ```
 
-To preserve binary attributes and use numeric owner identifiers (considered good practice on Gentoo), you can simply append the relevant flags to the respective `tar` commands:
+To preserve binary attributes and use numeric owner identifiers (considered good practice on Gentoo), you can simply append the relevant flags to the respective `tar` commands, e.g.:
 
 ```bash
 tar xvjpf archive_name.tar.bz2 --xattrs-include='*.*' --numeric-owner
 ```
 
-If you use the `-k` option, extract `src` and the modules separately
+If you use the `-k` option, extract `src` and the modules separately:
 
 ```bash
 tar xvjpf archive_name.tar.bz2.kmod