Fix minor grammar errors and English mistakes in documentation. (#1320)

### What changes were proposed in this pull request?

Fix minor grammar errors and English mistakes in documentation.

### Why are the changes needed?

For clarity.

Fix: # N/A

### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?

N/A

### How was this patch tested?

Built locally.

Co-authored-by: Justin Mclean <justin@classsoftware.com>

README.md

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Gravitino aims to provide several key features:
 
 ## Contributing to Gravitino
 
-Gravitino is open source software available under the Apache 2.0 license. For information of how to contribute to Gravitino please see the [Contribution guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md).
+Gravitino is open source software available under the Apache 2.0 license. For information on how to contribute to Gravitino please see the [Contribution guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md).
 
 ## Online documentation
 
@@ -53,19 +53,18 @@ Or:
 
 to build a compressed distribution package.
 
-The generated binary distribution package locates in `distribution` directory.
+The directory `distribution` contains the generated binary distribution package.
 
 For the details of building and testing Gravitino, please see [How to build Gravitino](docs/how-to-build.md).
 
 ## Quick start
 
 ### Configure and start the Gravitino server
 
-If you already have a binary distribution package, please decompress the package (if required)
-and go to the directory where the package locates.
+If you already have a binary distribution package, go to the directory of the decompressed package.
 
 Before starting the Gravitino server, please configure the Gravitino server configuration file. The
-configuration file, `gravitino.conf`, located in the `conf` directory and follows the standard property file format. You can modify the configuration within this file.
+configuration file, `gravitino.conf`, is in the `conf` directory and follows the standard property file format. You can modify the configuration within this file.
 
 To start the Gravitino server, please run:
 

docs/apache-hive-catalog.md

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ The Hive catalog is available for Apache Hive **2.x** only. Support for Apache H
 
 ### Catalog capabilities
 
-The Hive catalog supports to create, update, and delete databases and tables in the HMS.
+The Hive catalog supports creating, updating, and deleting databases and tables in the HMS.
 
 ### Catalog properties
 
@@ -61,12 +61,12 @@ see [Manage Metadata Using Gravitino](./manage-metadata-using-gravitino.md#schem
 
 ### Table capabilities
 
-The Hive catalog supports to create, update, and delete tables in the HMS.
+The Hive catalog supports creating, updating, and deleting of tables in the HMS.
 
 #### Table partitions
 
-The Hive catalog supports [partitioned tables](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DDL#LanguageManualDDL-PartitionedTables). Users can create partitioned tables in the Hive catalog with specific partitioning attribute.
-Although Gravitino supports several partitioning strategies, the Apache Hive inherently only supports a single partitioning strategy (partitioned by column), therefore the Hive catalog only support `Identity` partitioning.
+The Hive catalog supports [partitioned tables](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DDL#LanguageManualDDL-PartitionedTables). Users can create partitioned tables in the Hive catalog with the specific partitioning attribute.
+Although Gravitino supports several partitioning strategies, the Apache Hive inherently only supports a single partitioning strategy (partitioned by column), therefore the Hive catalog only supports `Identity` partitioning.
 
 :::caution
 The `fieldName` specified in the partitioning attribute must be a column defined in the table.
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ The `fieldName` specified in the partitioning attribute must be a column defined
 #### Table sort orders and distributions
 
 The Hive catalog supports [bucketed sorted tables](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DDL#LanguageManualDDL-BucketedSortedTables). Users can create bucketed sorted tables in the Hive catalog with specific `distribution` and `sortOrders` attributes.
-Although Gravitino supports several distribution strategies, the Apache Hive inherently only supports a single distribution strategy (clustered by column), therefore the Hive catalog only support `Hash` distribution.
+Although Gravitino supports several distribution strategies, the Apache Hive inherently only supports a single distribution strategy (clustered by column), therefore the Hive catalog only supports `Hash` distribution.
 
 :::caution
 The `fieldName` specified in the `distribution` and `sortOrders` attribute must be a column defined in the table.
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ Hive automatically adds and manages some reserved properties. Users aren't allow
 | `comment`               | Used to store the table comment.                  | 0.2.0         |
 | `numFiles`              | Used to store the number of files in the table.   | 0.2.0         |
 | `totalSize`             | Used to store the total size of the table.        | 0.2.0         |
-| `EXTERNAL`              | Indicates whether the table is an external table. | 0.2.0         |
+| `EXTERNAL`              | Indicates whether the table is external.          | 0.2.0         |
 | `transient_lastDdlTime` | Used to store the last DDL time of the table.     | 0.2.0         |
 
 ### Table operations
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ Please refer to [Manage Metadata Using Gravitino](./manage-metadata-using-gravit
 #### Alter operations
 
 Gravitino has already defined a unified set of [metadata operation interfaces](./manage-metadata-using-gravitino.md#alter-a-table), and almost all [Hive Alter operations](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DDL#LanguageManualDDL-AlterTable/Partition/Column) have corresponding table update request which enable you to change the struct of an existing table.
-The following table lists the mapping relationship between Hive Alter operations and Gravitino table update request.
+The following table lists the mapping relationship between Hive Alter operations and the Gravitino table update requests.
 
 ##### Alter table
 
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ The following table lists the mapping relationship between Hive Alter operations
 | `Alter Table Constraints`                     | Unsupported                    | -             |
 
 :::note
-As Gravitino has a separate interface for updating the comment of a table, the Hive catalog sets `comment` as a reserved property for the table, preventing users from setting the comment property, Although Apache Hive change the comment of a table by modifying the comment property of the table.
+As Gravitino has a separate interface for updating the comment of a table, the Hive catalog sets `comment` as a reserved property for the table, preventing users from setting the comment property, Although Apache Hive changes the comment of a table by modifying the comment property of the table.
 :::
 
 ##### Alter column

docs/docker-image-details.md

@@ -8,11 +8,11 @@ This software is licensed under the Apache License version 2."
 
 # User Docker images
 
-There are 2 kinds of docker images for user Docker images: the Gravitino Docker image and playground Docker images.
+There are 2 kinds of Docker images for users to use: the Gravitino Docker image and playground Docker images.
 
 ## Gravitino Docker image
 
-You can deploy the service with Gravitino Docker image.
+You can deploy the service with the Gravitino Docker image.
 
 Container startup commands
 
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ You can use the [playground](https://github.com/datastrato/gravitino-playground)
 
 The playground consists of multiple Docker images.
 
-The Docker images of playground have suitable configurations for users to experience.
+The Docker images of the playground have suitable configurations for users to experience.
 
 ### Hive image
 
@@ -59,12 +59,12 @@ Changelog
 
 # Developer Docker images
 
-You can use these kinds of the Docker images to facilitate Gravitino integration testing.
+You can use these kinds of Docker images to facilitate Gravitino integration testing.
 You can use it to test all catalog and connector modules within Gravitino.
 
 ## Gravitino CI Apache Hive image
 
-You can use this kind of images to test the catalog of Apache Hive.
+You can use this kind of image to test the catalog of Apache Hive.
 
 Changelog
 

docs/getting-started.md

@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ or locally see [Installing Gravitino playground locally](#installing-gravitino-p
 
 If you are using AWS and want to access the instance remotely, be sure to read [Accessing Gravitino on AWS externally](#accessing-gravitino-on-aws-externally)
 
-
 ## Getting started on Amazon Web Services
 
 To begin using Gravitino on AWS, follow these steps:
@@ -156,7 +155,7 @@ You can install Apache Hive and Hadoop on AWS or Google Cloud Platform manually,
 the steps of how to install [Apache Hive](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/) and
 [Hadoop](https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-common/SingleCluster.html) instructions on their websites.
 
-Installing and configuring Hive can be a little complex. If you don't already have Hive setup and running you can use the Docker container Datastrato provide to get Gravitino up and running.
+Installing and configuring Hive can be a little complex. If you don't already have Hive setup and running you can use the Docker container Datastrato provides to get Gravitino up and running.
 
 You can follow the instructions for setting up [Docker on Ubuntu](https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/).
 
@@ -172,7 +171,7 @@ sudo docker start gravitino-container
 
 ## Installing Apache Hive locally
 
-The same steps apply for installing Hive locally as on AWS or Google Cloud Platform. You can
+The same steps apply to installing Hive locally as on AWS or Google Cloud Platform. You can
 follow the instructions for [Installing Apache Hive on AWS or Google Cloud Platform](#installing-apache-hive-on-aws-or-google-cloud-platform).
 
 ## Installing Gravitino playground on AWS or Google Cloud Platform
@@ -181,7 +180,7 @@ Gravitino provides a bundle of Docker images to launch a Gravitino playground, w
 includes Apache Hive, Apache Hadoop, Trino, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Gravitino. You can use
 Docker compose to start them all.
 
-Installing Docker and Docker Compose is a requirement to using the playground.
+Installing Docker and Docker Compose is a requirement for using the playground.
 
 ```shell
 sudo apt install docker docker-compose
@@ -195,12 +194,12 @@ how to run the playground, please see [how-to-use-the-playground](./how-to-use-t
 
 ## Installing Gravitino playground locally
 
-The same steps apply for installing the playground locally as on AWS or Google Cloud Platform. You
+The same steps apply to installing the playground locally as on AWS or Google Cloud Platform. You
 can follow the instructions for [Installing Gravitino playground on AWS or Google Cloud Platform](#installing-gravitino-playground-on-aws-or-google-cloud-platform).
 
 ## Using REST to interact with Gravitino
 
-After starting the Gravitino distribution, issue REST commands to create and modify metadata. While you are using localhost in these examples, run these commands remotely via a host name or IP address once you establish correct access.
+After starting the Gravitino distribution, issue REST commands to create and modify metadata. While you are using localhost in these examples, run these commands remotely via a hostname or IP address once you establish correct access.
 
 1. Create a Metalake
 
@@ -257,7 +256,7 @@ After starting the Gravitino distribution, issue REST commands to create and mod
    http://localhost:8090/api/metalakes/metalake/catalogs
    ```
 
-   Note that the metastore.uris used for the Hive catalog and would need updating if you change your configuration.
+   Note that the metastore.uris property used for the Hive catalog and would need updating if you change your configuration.
 
 ## Accessing Gravitino on AWS externally