diff --git a/Doc/c-api/intro.rst b/Doc/c-api/intro.rst
index 9befaf7..e8a3fc4 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/intro.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/intro.rst
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@
 the caller is said to *borrow* the reference. Nothing needs to be done for a
 borrowed reference.
 
-Conversely, when a calling function passes it a reference to an  object, there
+Conversely, when a calling function passes in a reference to an  object, there
 are two possibilities: the function *steals* a  reference to the object, or it
 does not.  *Stealing a reference* means that when you pass a reference to a
 function, that function assumes that it now owns that reference, and you are not
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/veryhigh.rst b/Doc/c-api/veryhigh.rst
index 6a3f91d..6811bc8 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/veryhigh.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/veryhigh.rst
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 :const:`Py_file_input`, and :const:`Py_single_input`.  These are described
 following the functions which accept them as parameters.
 
-Note also that several of these functions take :ctype:`FILE\*` parameters.  On
+Note also that several of these functions take :ctype:`FILE\*` parameters.  One
 particular issue which needs to be handled carefully is that the :ctype:`FILE`
 structure for different C libraries can be different and incompatible.  Under
 Windows (at least), it is possible for dynamically linked extensions to actually