From 571ab494a8d62b860610f21a41bb16c7eabecd26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Amir Livneh <alivneh@fb.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 09:16:56 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Use consistent tense and remove repetition in E introduction
 (#1372)

---
 CppCoreGuidelines.md | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CppCoreGuidelines.md b/CppCoreGuidelines.md
index da9ab69..d861b9c 100644
--- a/CppCoreGuidelines.md
+++ b/CppCoreGuidelines.md
@@ -15152,8 +15152,8 @@ Error handling involves:
 
 * Detecting an error
 * Transmitting information about an error to some handler code
-* Preserve the state of a program in a valid state
-* Avoid resource leaks
+* Preserving a valid state of the program
+* Avoiding resource leaks
 
 It is not possible to recover from all errors. If recovery from an error is not possible, it is important to quickly "get out" in a well-defined way. A strategy for error handling must be simple, or it becomes a source of even worse errors.  Untested and rarely executed error-handling code is itself the source of many bugs.