Fix typos and grammar

3 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/code.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/code.xml
index 4e3be35079..eb0f4b7a06 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/code.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/code.xml
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@
      <c>-code_path_choice Choice</c>. If the flag is set to <c>relaxed</c>,
      the code server will instead choose a suitable directory
      depending on the actual file structure. If there exists a regular
-     application ebin directory,situation it will be chosen. But if it does
+     application ebin directory, it will be chosen. But if it does
      not exist, the ebin directory in the archive is chosen if it
      exists. If neither of them exists the original directory will be
      chosen.</p>
@@ -282,9 +282,9 @@
 
     <p>From the R12B release, functions in this module will generally fail with an
     exception if they are passed an incorrect type (for instance, an integer or a tuple
-    where an atom was expected). An error tuple will be returned if type of argument
+    where an atom was expected). An error tuple will be returned if the type of the argument
     was correct, but there was some other error (for instance, a non-existing directory
-    given to <c>set_path/1</c>.</p>
+    was given to <c>set_path/1</c>).</p>
   </section>
 
   <datatypes>
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml
index 9cd4cfa712..831ef1c22a 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml
@@ -1194,8 +1194,8 @@
           and <c>read_line/1</c> are the only ways to read from a file
           opened in raw mode (although they work for normally opened
           files, too).</p>
-	  <p>For files where <c>encoding</c> is set to something else than <c>latin1</c>, one character might be represented by more than one byte on the file. The parameter <c>Number</c> always denotes the number of <em>characters</em> read from the file, why the position in the file might be moved a lot more than this number when reading a Unicode file.</p>
-	  <p>Also if <c>encoding</c> is set to something else than <c>latin1</c>, the <c>read/3</c> call will fail if the data contains characters larger than 255, why the <seealso marker="stdlib:io">io(3)</seealso> module is to be preferred when reading such a file.</p> 
+	  <p>For files where <c>encoding</c> is set to something else than <c>latin1</c>, one character might be represented by more than one byte on the file. The parameter <c>Number</c> always denotes the number of <em>characters</em> read from the file, while the position in the file might be moved much more than this number when reading a Unicode file.</p>
+	  <p>Also, if <c>encoding</c> is set to something else than <c>latin1</c>, the <c>read/3</c> call will fail if the data contains characters larger than 255, which is why the <seealso marker="stdlib:io">io(3)</seealso> module is to be preferred when reading such a file.</p> 
 	  <p>The function returns:</p>
         <taglist>
           <tag><c>{ok, <anno>Data</anno>}</c></tag>
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml
index a1bf67d332..d3d7c90c31 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ random:seed(erlang:phash2([node()]),
     <p>The implementation changed in R15. Upgrading to R15 will break
       applications that expect a specific output for a given seed. The output
       is still deterministic number series, but different compared to releases
-      older than R15. The seed <c>{0,0,0}</c> will for example no longer
+      older than R15. The seed <c>{0,0,0}</c> will, for example, no longer
       produce a flawed series of only zeros.</p>
   </section>
 </erlref>