diff --git a/en/reference/schema-reference.html b/en/reference/schema-reference.html
index cf00e117df..455d0983ac 100644
--- a/en/reference/schema-reference.html
+++ b/en/reference/schema-reference.html
@@ -3547,7 +3547,7 @@ <h2 id="match">match</h2>
   a <a href="#filter">filter field</a>, just as if <code>rank: filter</code> was specified.
   This is because there is only one word per field
   (or per item in the case of multivalued types such as <code>array&lt;string&gt;</code>),
-  so there little ranking information.
+  so there is little ranking information.
   Turn off the implicit <code>rank: filter</code> by adding <code>rank: normal</code>.
 </p></td>
 </tr>
@@ -3608,7 +3608,7 @@ <h2 id="match">match</h2>
 <tr><td>prefix</td>
 <td>attribute</td>
 <td><p id="prefix">
-  Has no effect as <a href="../attributes.html">attributes</a>
+  Has no effect, as <a href="../attributes.html">attributes</a>
   always support prefix searches. Prefix matching must be
   <a href="query-language-reference.html#prefix">specified in the query</a>.
   See also <a href="query-language-reference.html#matches">regular expressions</a>.
diff --git a/en/reference/validation-overrides.html b/en/reference/validation-overrides.html
index cf024747a8..81703b3604 100644
--- a/en/reference/validation-overrides.html
+++ b/en/reference/validation-overrides.html
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
   <em>validation-overrides.xml</em> is added to the root of an
   <a href="application-packages-reference.html">application package</a>
   (i.e. next to <a href="services.html">services.xml</a>)
-  to allow a deployment, that otherwise fails to validate, to proceed.
+  to allow a deployment that otherwise fails to validate to proceed.
   Validations which can be overridden in this way
   are returned with a dash-separated validation-id preceding the validation message.
   E.g. if the message is <code>field-type-change: Changing the type of field 'foo' to 'bar' is not supported</code>
@@ -47,9 +47,9 @@ <h2 id="structure">Structure</h2>
 
 <h2 id="allow">allow</h2>
 <p>
-  An <code>allow</code>-tag disables a particular validation for a limited time.
-  It contains a single validation-id, see <a href="#list">list</a> below.
-  <code>allow</code>-tags with unknown ids are ignored.
+  An <code>allow</code> tag disables a particular validation for a limited time.
+  It contains a single validation id, see <a href="#list">list</a> below.
+  <code>allow</code> tags with unknown ids are ignored.
 </p>
 <table class="table">
   <thead>