#7637: fix a grammar error; simplify a sentence
diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst
index 1efa3d9..e6f2253 100644
--- a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@
With an explicit *encoding* [1]_ argument, the result is a byte
string in the specified encoding. It is recommended that you
always specify an encoding; you may use any encoding you like, but
- an argument of "utf-8" is the most common, avoid
+ an argument of "utf-8" is the most common choice, avoiding
:exc:`UnicodeError` exceptions in case of unrepresentable text
data.
@@ -157,8 +157,8 @@
indentation string and defaults to a tabulator; *newl* specifies the string
emitted at the end of each line and defaults to ``\n``.
- There's also an *encoding* argument, that behaves like the corresponding
- argument of :meth:`toxml`.
+ The *encoding* argument behaves like the corresponding argument of
+ :meth:`toxml`.
.. _dom-example: