Documentation: minor grammatical fixes.

The final hunk in this patch corrects what appears to be a typo:

of --> or

Signed-off-by: David J. Mellor <dmellor@whistlingcat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Documentation/git-apply.txt

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ and a work tree.
 OPTIONS
 -------
 <patch>...::
-	The files to read patch from.  '-' can be used to read
+	The files to read the patch from.  '-' can be used to read
 	from the standard input.
 
 --stat::
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ OPTIONS
 	input.  Turns off "apply".
 
 --numstat::
-	Similar to \--stat, but shows number of added and
-	deleted lines in decimal notation and pathname without
+	Similar to \--stat, but shows the number of added and
+	deleted lines in decimal notation and the pathname without
 	abbreviation, to make it more machine friendly.  For
 	binary files, outputs two `-` instead of saying
 	`0 0`.  Turns off "apply".
@@ -60,15 +60,15 @@ OPTIONS
 	causes the index file to be updated.
 
 --cached::
-	Apply a patch without touching the working tree. Instead, take the
-	cached data, apply the patch, and store the result in the index,
+	Apply a patch without touching the working tree. Instead take the
+	cached data, apply the patch, and store the result in the index
 	without using the working tree. This implies '--index'.
 
 --build-fake-ancestor=<file>::
 	Newer 'git-diff' output has embedded 'index information'
 	for each blob to help identify the original version that
 	the patch applies to.  When this flag is given, and if
-	the original versions of the blobs is available locally,
+	the original versions of the blobs are available locally,
 	builds a temporary index containing those blobs.
 +
 When a pure mode change is encountered (which has no index information),
@@ -109,13 +109,13 @@ the information is read from the current index instead.
 	applying a diff generated with --unified=0. To bypass these
 	checks use '--unidiff-zero'.
 +
-Note, for the reasons stated above usage of context-free patches are
+Note, for the reasons stated above usage of context-free patches is
 discouraged.
 
 --apply::
 	If you use any of the options marked "Turns off
 	'apply'" above, 'git-apply' reads and outputs the
-	information you asked without actually applying the
+	requested information without actually applying the
 	patch.  Give this flag after those flags to also apply
 	the patch.
 
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ discouraged.
 	patch.  This can be used to extract the common part between
 	two files by first running 'diff' on them and applying
 	the result with this option, which would apply the
-	deletion part but not addition part.
+	deletion part but not the addition part.
 
 --allow-binary-replacement::
 --binary::
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ By default, the command outputs warning messages but applies the patch.
 When `git-apply` is used for statistics and not applying a
 patch, it defaults to `nowarn`.
 +
-You can use different `<action>` to control this
+You can use different `<action>` values to control this
 behavior:
 +
 * `nowarn` turns off the trailing whitespace warning.
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ behavior:
   patch as-is (default).
 * `fix` outputs warnings for a few such errors, and applies the
   patch after fixing them (`strip` is a synonym --- the tool
-  used to consider only trailing whitespaces as errors, and the
+  used to consider only trailing whitespace characters as errors, and the
   fix involved 'stripping' them, but modern gits do more).
 * `error` outputs warnings for a few such errors, and refuses
   to apply the patch.
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ behavior:
 	adjusting the hunk headers appropriately).
 
 --directory=<root>::
-	Prepend <root> to all filenames.  If a "-p" argument was passed, too,
+	Prepend <root> to all filenames.  If a "-p" argument was also passed,
 	it is applied before prepending the new root.
 +
 For example, a patch that talks about updating `a/git-gui.sh` to `b/git-gui.sh`
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ ignored, i.e., they are not required to be up-to-date or clean and they
 are not updated.
 
 If --index is not specified, then the submodule commits in the patch
-are ignored and only the absence of presence of the corresponding
+are ignored and only the absence or presence of the corresponding
 subdirectory is checked and (if possible) updated.
 
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