diff --git a/docs/source/user/development.rst b/docs/source/user/development.rst
index 872befe9..17b22d25 100644
--- a/docs/source/user/development.rst
+++ b/docs/source/user/development.rst
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Go to the ``docs`` directory and run ``make html``.
 Test Suite
 -----------
 
-If you would like to run the test suite, create database for test like this::
+If you would like to run the test suite, create a database for testing like this::
 
     mysql -e 'create database test_pymysql  DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 DEFAULT COLLATE utf8_general_ci;'
     mysql -e 'create database test_pymysql2 DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 DEFAULT COLLATE utf8_general_ci;'
diff --git a/pymysql/cursors.py b/pymysql/cursors.py
index c3e16ba1..41284538 100644
--- a/pymysql/cursors.py
+++ b/pymysql/cursors.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ class Cursor(object):
     This is the object you use to interact with the database.
     """
 
-    #: Max stetement size which :meth:`executemany` generates.
+    #: Max statement size which :meth:`executemany` generates.
     #:
     #: Max size of allowed statement is max_allowed_packet - packet_header_size.
     #: Default value of max_allowed_packet is 1048576.
@@ -403,8 +403,8 @@ class SSCursor(Cursor):
     or for connections to remote servers over a slow network.
 
     Instead of copying every row of data into a buffer, this will fetch
-    rows as needed. The upside of this, is the client uses much less memory,
-    and rows are returned much faster when traveling over a slow network,
+    rows as needed. The upside of this is the client uses much less memory,
+    and rows are returned much faster when traveling over a slow network
     or if the result set is very big.
 
     There are limitations, though. The MySQL protocol doesn't support