diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/docguide.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/docguide.sgml
index 37b5595ca7b..9651f0f9988 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/docguide.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/docguide.sgml
@@ -244,8 +244,9 @@
 
    <para>
     It's possible that the ports do not update the main catalog file
-    in <filename>/usr/local/share/sgml/catalog.ports</filename> or order
-    isn't proper .  Be sure to have the following lines in beginning of file:
+    in <filename>/usr/local/share/sgml/catalog.ports</filename> or that the
+    order isn't proper.  Be sure to have the following lines in the beginning
+    of the file:
 <programlisting>
 CATALOG "openjade/catalog"
 CATALOG "iso8879/catalog"
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml
index a951d6b0f04..02ca370860c 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
      <para>
       All WAL records required for the backup must contain sufficient full-page writes,
       which requires you to enable <varname>full_page_writes</> on the master and
-      not to use the tool like <application>pg_compresslog</> as
+      not to use a tool like <application>pg_compresslog</> as
       <varname>archive_command</> to remove full-page writes from WAL files.
      </para>
     </listitem>