diff --git a/cmd/juju/controller/addmodel.go b/cmd/juju/controller/addmodel.go
index 32199ae96c4..c7ec5c1e776 100644
--- a/cmd/juju/controller/addmodel.go
+++ b/cmd/juju/controller/addmodel.go
@@ -74,13 +74,12 @@ Model names may only contain lowercase letters, digits and hyphens, and
 may not start with a hyphen.
 
 To add a model, Juju requires a credential:
-
-    * if you have a default (or just one) credential defined at client
-     (i.e. in credentials.yaml), then juju will use that;
-    * if you have no default (and multiple) credentials defined at the client,
-     then you must specify one using --credential;
-    * as the admin user you can omit the credential,
-     and the credential used to bootstrap will be used.
+* if you have a default (or just one) credential defined at client
+  (i.e. in credentials.yaml), then juju will use that;
+* if you have no default (and multiple) credentials defined at the client,
+  then you must specify one using --credential;
+* as the admin user you can omit the credential,
+  and the credential used to bootstrap will be used.
 
 To add a credential for add-model, use one of the "juju add-credential" or
 "juju autoload-credentials" commands. These will add credentials
@@ -97,7 +96,7 @@ without a cloud qualifier, then it is assumed to be in the same cloud
 as the controller model.
 
 When adding --config, the default-series key is deprecated in favour of
-default-base .e.g. ubuntu@22.04.
+default-base, e.g. ubuntu@22.04.
 
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