From a76a4f94d1c9fe7d3f03289c516c98050a7a2460 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Silvia O'Dwyer <silviaodwyer119@yahoo.ie>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 14:27:34 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Grammatical and spelling updates to the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Silvia O'Dwyer <silviaodwyer119@yahoo.ie>
---
 docs/CONTRIBUTING.md |  6 +++---
 docs/rest-api.md     | 10 +++++-----
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md b/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 0bb2eed..4593b3b 100644
--- a/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -58,13 +58,13 @@ The static files (`html`, `js`, and `css`) are generated by `yarn`, embedded in
 
 # API
 
-The backend API is documented in the [rest API guide](rest-api.md)
+The backend API is documented in the [Rest API guide](rest-api.md)
 
 # Development
 
 Each one of the following sections describes an alternative method to run the project from sources. You may use the one that suits your needs.
 
-They all require the project is cloned into your `$GOPATH`.
+They all require that the project is cloned into your `$GOPATH`.
 
 ```bash
 $ go get -d -u github.com/src-d/gitbase-web/...
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ This will start a server locally, which you can access at [http://localhost:8080
 
 ## Run Using webpack Hot Module Replacement
 
-Instead of rebuilding the frontend and restarting the backend every time you do a change, you may instead run the backend to provide the API, and use webpack to serve the frontend.
+Instead of rebuilding the frontend and restarting the backend every time you make a change, you may instead run the backend to provide the API, and use webpack to serve the frontend.
 
 In one terminal run the Go backend:
 
diff --git a/docs/rest-api.md b/docs/rest-api.md
index e0b449f..bd1fa64 100644
--- a/docs/rest-api.md
+++ b/docs/rest-api.md
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Receives an SQL query and forwards it to the `gitbase` server.
 
 The request body can have:
 
-* `query`: An SQL statement string. Do not include `LIMIT` here.
+* `query`: A SQL statement string. Do not include `LIMIT` here.
 * `limit`: Number, will be added as SQL `LIMIT` to the query. Optional. Will also be ignored if it is 0.
 
 The success response will contain:
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ curl -X POST \
 }
 ```
 
-A failure:
+A failure response:
 
 ```bash
 curl -X POST \
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ curl -X POST \
 }
 ```
 
-For a query with uast nodes the protobuf response is unmarshalled and the json is returned:
+For a query with UAST nodes, the protobuf response is unmarshalled and the JSON is returned:
 
 ```bash
 curl -X POST \
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ curl -X POST \
 
 The endpoint also receives additional parameters:
 
-- `serverUrl` - allows to override bblfsh server url.
+- `serverUrl` - allows to override bblfsh server URL.
 - `filename` - can be used instead of language. Then the bblfsh server would try to guess the language.
 - `filter` - [xpath query](https://doc.bblf.sh/user/uast-querying.html) to filter the results.
 
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ curl -X GET http://localhost:8080/get-languages
 ## POST /filter
 
 Accepts an array of UAST protobufs encoded using base64 and a UAST filter query.
-Returns the filtered UAST JSON as result.
+Returns the resulting filtered UAST JSON.
 
 ```bash
 curl -X POST \