diff --git a/doc/api/http.md b/doc/api/http.md
index 17dd39c76ccfae..8b99ba5256735a 100644
--- a/doc/api/http.md
+++ b/doc/api/http.md
@@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ with a 100 Continue as appropriate.
 
 Handling this event involves calling [`response.writeContinue()`][] if the client
 should continue to send the request body, or generating an appropriate HTTP
-response (e.g., 400 Bad Request) if the client should not continue to send the
+response (e.g. 400 Bad Request) if the client should not continue to send the
 request body.
 
 Note that when this event is emitted and handled, the `'request'` event will
@@ -755,7 +755,7 @@ This method adds HTTP trailing headers (a header but at the end of the
 message) to the response.
 
 Trailers will **only** be emitted if chunked encoding is used for the
-response; if it is not (e.g., if the request was HTTP/1.0), they will
+response; if it is not (e.g. if the request was HTTP/1.0), they will
 be silently discarded.
 
 Note that HTTP requires the `Trailer` header to be sent if you intend to