diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 9566b78..a58257e 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -31,9 +31,9 @@ the README.md and PR request.
 2. Say in the pull request details the changes to the shell,
 this includes useful file locations and breaking changes.
 
-3. The versioning scheme we use is [SemVer](http://semver.org/) and the
-commit scheme we use is
-[Conventional Commits](https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/).
+3. We use [SemVer](http://semver.org/) for versioning and
+[Conventional Commits](https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/)
+for commit messages.
 Please document any backwards incompatible changes and be sure to name
 your commits correctly.