diff --git a/library/rustc-std-workspace-core/README.md b/library/rustc-std-workspace-core/README.md
index 9c2b1fa91d3..40e0b62afab 100644
--- a/library/rustc-std-workspace-core/README.md
+++ b/library/rustc-std-workspace-core/README.md
@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@ This crate is a shim and empty crate which simply depends on `libcore` and
 reexports all of its contents. The crate is the crux of empowering the standard
 library to depend on crates from crates.io
 
-Crates on crates.io that the standard library depend on the
-`rustc-std-workspace-core` crate from crates.io. On crates.io, however, this
-crate is empty. We use `[patch]` to override it to this crate in this
-repository. As a result, crates on crates.io will draw a dependency edge to
-`libcore`, the version defined in this repository. That should draw all the
-dependency edges to ensure Cargo builds crates successfully!
+Crates on crates.io that the standard library depend on need to depend on the
+`rustc-std-workspace-core` crate from crates.io, which is empty. We use
+`[patch]` to override it to this crate in this repository. As a result, crates
+on crates.io will draw a dependency edge to `libcore`, the version defined in
+this repository. That should draw all the dependency edges to ensure Cargo
+builds crates successfully!
 
 Note that crates on crates.io need to depend on this crate with the name `core`
 for everything to work correctly. To do that they can use: