diff --git a/src/ch12-01-accepting-command-line-arguments.md b/src/ch12-01-accepting-command-line-arguments.md
index 46f2f37f00..99cad7f0ba 100644
--- a/src/ch12-01-accepting-command-line-arguments.md
+++ b/src/ch12-01-accepting-command-line-arguments.md
@@ -11,10 +11,10 @@ $ cd minigrep
 ```
 
 The first task is to make `minigrep` accept its two command line arguments: the
-file path and a string to search for. That is, we want to be able to run our
+file path and a string for which to search. That is, we want to be able to run our
 program with `cargo run`, two hyphens to indicate the following arguments are
-for our program rather than for `cargo`, a string to search for, and a path to
-a file to search in, like so:
+for our program rather than for `cargo`, a string for which to search, and a path to
+a file within which to search, like so:
 
 ```console
 $ cargo run -- searchstring example-filename.txt