diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 3c828c7..daf1728 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ Working examples that demonstrate usage.
 
 **client.js**
 
-There is a object to hold both the request and response to the API server.
+There is an object to hold both the request and response to the API server.
 
 The main function that does the heavy lifting (and external entry point) is `API`.
 
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ Please run your code through:
 
 4. Commit your changes in logical chunks. Please adhere to these [git commit
    message guidelines](http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messages.html)
-   or your code is unlikely be merged into the main project. Use Git's
+   or your code is unlikely to be merged into the main project. Use Git's
    [interactive rebase](https://help.github.com/articles/interactive-rebase)
    feature to tidy up your commits before making them public.
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a7cb20c..66022dd 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ If you are looking for the SendGrid API client library, please see [this repo](h
 
 # Announcements
 
-All updates to this library is documented in our [CHANGELOG](https://github.com/sendgrid/nodejs-http-client/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md).
+All updates to this library are documented in our [CHANGELOG](https://github.com/sendgrid/nodejs-http-client/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md).
 
 # Installation