diff --git a/multi-node/README.md b/multi-node/README.md
index 57120c28..c1e8b998 100644
--- a/multi-node/README.md
+++ b/multi-node/README.md
@@ -12,12 +12,12 @@ $ docker-compose -f generate-indexer-certs.yml run --rm generator
 ```
 3) Start the environment with docker-compose:
 
-- In foregroud:
+- In the foregroud:
 ```
 $ docker-compose up
 ```
 
-- In background:
+- In the background:
 ```
 $ docker-compose up -d
 ```