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index 705e337c..0458fd87 100644
--- a/README.md
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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 
 ## Features
 
-* A clean API separated per service. Each module has a correspondent service.
+* A clean API separated per service. Each module has a corresponding service.
 * Support for most of AWS services.
 * Configurable HTTP client and JSON parser.
 * Generated by [aws-codegen](https://github.com/aws-beam/aws-codegen) using the
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ iex> IO.inspect(result)
 %{"HasMoreStreams" => false, "StreamNames" => []}
 ```
 
-If you are using `AWS.S3`, you can upload a file with integrity check doing:
+If you are using `AWS.S3`, you can upload a file with integrity check by doing:
 
 ```elixir
 iex> client = AWS.Client.create("your-access-key-id", "your-secret-access-key", "us-east-1")
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ iex> AWS.S3.put_object(client, "your-bucket-name", "foo/your-file-on-s3.txt",
 ```
 
 Note that you may need to specify the `ContentType` attribute when calling `AWS.S3.put_object/4`.
-This is because S3 will use that to store the MIME type of the file.
+This is because S3 will use that to store the file's MIME type.
 
 You can also upload to S3 as multipart. If you're facing timeout issues, this strategy is
 recommended: