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-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-simple-ipc.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/reftable.txt4
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-simple-ipc.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-simple-ipc.txt
index d88b1ef206..b425909868 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-simple-ipc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-simple-ipc.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Simple-IPC API
==============
The Simple-IPC API is a collection of `ipc_` prefixed library routines
-and a basic communication protocol that allow an IPC-client process to
+and a basic communication protocol that allows an IPC-client process to
send an application-specific IPC-request message to an IPC-server
process and receive an application-specific IPC-response message.
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/reftable.txt b/Documentation/technical/reftable.txt
index d7d066d876..84637f96e7 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/reftable.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/reftable.txt
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ search lookup, and range scans.
Storage in the file is organized into variable sized blocks. Prefix
compression is used within a single block to reduce disk space. Block
-size and alignment is tunable by the writer.
+size and alignment are tunable by the writer.
Performance
^^^^^^^^^^^
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ The 2-byte `restart_count` stores the number of entries in the
`restart_count` to binary search between restarts before starting a
linear scan.
-Exactly `restart_count` 3-byte `restart_offset` values precedes the
+Exactly `restart_count` 3-byte `restart_offset` values precede the
`restart_count`. Offsets are relative to the start of the block and
refer to the first byte of any `ref_record` whose name has not been
prefix compressed. Entries in the `restart_offset` list must be sorted,