-This construct very useful for when you want to match the text inside a
-pair of delimiters. For instance, @samp{/\*.*?\*/} will match C
-comments in a string. This could not be achieved without the use of
-greedy quantifier.
+This construct is very useful for when you want to match the text inside
+a pair of delimiters. For instance, @samp{/\*.*?\*/} will match C
+comments in a string. This could not easily be achieved without the use
+of a non-greedy quantifier.