diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 848bbf0..478a8d4 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 [![GitHub marketplace](https://img.shields.io/badge/Marketplace-commit--check--action-blue)](https://github.com/marketplace/actions/commit-check-action)
 [![slsa-badge](https://slsa.dev/images/gh-badge-level3.svg)](https://github.com/commit-check/commit-check-action/blob/a2873ca0482dd505c93fb51861c953e82fd0a186/action.yml#L59-L69)
 
-A Github Action for checking commit message formatting, branch naming, committer name, email, commit signoff and more.
+A GitHub Action for checking commit message formatting, branch naming, committer name, email, commit signoff, and more.
 
 ## Table of Contents
 
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ on:
 jobs:
   commit-check:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    permissions:  # use permissions because of use pr-comments
+    permissions:  # use permissions because use of pr-comments
       contents: read
       pull-requests: write
     steps:
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ jobs:
           fetch-depth: 0  # required for merge-base check
       - uses: commit-check/commit-check-action@v1
         env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} # use GITHUB_TOKEN because of use pr-comments
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} # use GITHUB_TOKEN because use of pr-comments
         with:
           message: true
           branch: true
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ jobs:
           author-email: true
           commit-signoff: true
           merge-base: false
-          imperative: true
+          imperative: false
           job-summary: true
           pr-comments: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' }}
 ```
@@ -81,13 +81,13 @@ jobs:
 ### `message`
 
 - **Description**: check commit message formatting convention.
-  - By default the rule follows [conventional commits](https://www.conventionalcommits.org/).
+  - By default, the rule follows [conventional commits](https://www.conventionalcommits.org/).
 - Default: `true`
 
 ### `branch`
 
 - **Description**: check git branch naming convention.
-  - By default the rule follows [conventional branch](https://conventional-branch.github.io/).
+  - By default, the rule follows [conventional branch](https://conventional-branch.github.io/).
 - Default: `true`
 
 ### `author-name`
@@ -107,13 +107,13 @@ jobs:
 
 ### `merge-base`
 
-- **Description**: check current branch is rebased onto target branch.
+- **Description**: check current branch is rebased onto the target branch.
 - Default: `false`
 
 > [!IMPORTANT]
-> `merge-base` is an experimental feature. by default it's disable.
+> `merge-base` is an experimental feature. By default, it's disabled.
 >
-> To use this feature, you need fetch all history for all branches by setting `fetch-depth: 0` in `actions/checkout`.
+> To use this feature, you need to fetch all history for all branches by setting `fetch-depth: 0` in `actions/checkout`.
 
 ### `imperative`
 
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ jobs:
 
 ### `dry-run`
 
-- **Description**: run checks without failing. exit code is 0 otherwise is 1.
+- **Description**: run checks without failing. exit code is 0; otherwise is 1.
 - Default: `false`
 
 ### `job-summary`
@@ -136,11 +136,11 @@ jobs:
 - Default: `false`
 
 > [!IMPORTANT]
-> `pr-comments` is an experimental feature. by default it's disable. To use it you need to set `GITHUB_TOKEN` in the GitHub Action.
+> `pr-comments` is an experimental feature. By default, it's disabled. To use it, you need to set `GITHUB_TOKEN` in the GitHub Action.
 >
 > This feature currently doesn’t work with forked repositories. For more details, refer to issue [#77](https://github.com/commit-check/commit-check-action/issues/77).
 
-Note: the default rule of above inputs is following [this configuration](https://github.com/commit-check/commit-check/blob/main/.commit-check.yml), if you want to customize just add your `.commit-check.yml` config file under your repository root directory.
+Note: the default rule of above inputs is following [this configuration](https://github.com/commit-check/commit-check/blob/main/.commit-check.yml). If you want to customize, just add your `.commit-check.yml` config file under your repository root directory.
 
 ## GitHub Action Job Summary
 
@@ -191,4 +191,4 @@ Versioning follows [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/).
 
 ## Have questions or feedback?
 
-To provide feedback (requesting a feature or reporting a bug) please post to [issues](https://github.com/commit-check/commit-check/issues).
+To provide feedback (requesting a feature or reporting a bug), please post to [issues](https://github.com/commit-check/commit-check/issues).