diff --git a/Doc/c-api/arg.rst b/Doc/c-api/arg.rst
index f2bb8c6..983d113 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/arg.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/arg.rst
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 Strings and buffers
 -------------------
 
-These formats allow to access an object as a contiguous chunk of memory.
+These formats allow accessing an object as a contiguous chunk of memory.
 You don't have to provide raw storage for the returned unicode or bytes
 area.  Also, you won't have to release any memory yourself, except with the
 ``es``, ``es#``, ``et`` and ``et#`` formats.
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/function.rst b/Doc/c-api/function.rst
index ad98322..4c74dc8 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/function.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/function.rst
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 
 .. c:function:: PyObject* PyFunction_NewWithQualName(PyObject *code, PyObject *globals, PyObject *qualname)
 
-   As :c:func:`PyFunction_New`, but also allows to set the function object's
+   As :c:func:`PyFunction_New`, but also allows setting the function object's
    ``__qualname__`` attribute.  *qualname* should be a unicode object or NULL;
    if NULL, the ``__qualname__`` attribute is set to the same value as its
    ``__name__`` attribute.