Change "create new" to "create a"
diff --git a/docs/basics.md b/docs/basics.md
index 0ebb7d8..302258c 100644
--- a/docs/basics.md
+++ b/docs/basics.md
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@
### Scope builder
In addition to the coroutine scope provided by different builders, it is possible to declare your own scope using
-[coroutineScope] builder. It creates new coroutine scope and does not complete until all launched children
+[coroutineScope] builder. It creates a coroutine scope and does not complete until all launched children
complete. The main difference between [runBlocking] and [coroutineScope] is that the latter does not block the current thread
while waiting for all children to complete.
diff --git a/docs/exception-handling.md b/docs/exception-handling.md
index 4c85d9d..d2b34ca 100644
--- a/docs/exception-handling.md
+++ b/docs/exception-handling.md
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
exception, for example via [await][Deferred.await] or [receive][ReceiveChannel.receive]
([produce] and [receive][ReceiveChannel.receive] are covered later in [Channels](https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/blob/master/docs/channels.md) section).
-It can be demonstrated by a simple example that creates new coroutines in [GlobalScope]:
+It can be demonstrated by a simple example that creates coroutines in the [GlobalScope]:
<div class="sample" markdown="1" theme="idea" data-highlight-only>