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 Chapter 6 will cover enums in more detail. The purpose of these `Result` types
 is to encode error-handling information.
 
-`Result`’s variants are `Ok` or `Err`. The `Ok` variant indicates the
-operation was successful, and inside `Ok` is the successfully generated value.
-The `Err` variant means the operation failed, and `Err` contains information
+`Result`’s variants are `Ok` and `Err`. The `Ok` variant indicates the
+operation was successful, and it contains the successfully generated value.
+The `Err` variant means the operation failed, and it contains information
 about how or why the operation failed.
 
 Values of the `Result` type, like values of any type, have methods defined on