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diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml
index 1c03efe7fd..6976457897 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml
@@ -1689,9 +1689,9 @@
<desc>
<p>Makes sure that any buffers kept by the operating system
(not by the Erlang runtime system) are written to disk. In
- many ways it's resembles fsync but it not requires to update
- some of file's metadata such as the access time. On
- some platforms, this function might have no effect.</p>
+ many ways it resembles fsync but it does not update
+ some of the file's metadata such as the access time. On
+ some platforms this function has no effect.</p>
<p>Applications that access databases or log files often write
a tiny data fragment (e.g., one line in a log file) and then
call fsync() immediately in order to ensure that the written
@@ -1699,11 +1699,11 @@
will always initiate two write operations: one for the newly
written data and another one in order to update the modification
time stored in the inode. If the modification time is not a part
- of the transaction concept fdatasync() can be used to avoid
+ of the transaction concept, fdatasync() can be used to avoid
unnecessary inode disk write operations.</p>
- <p>Available only in some POSIX systems. This call results in a
- call to fsync(), or has no effect, in systems not implementing
- the fdatasync syscall.</p>
+ <p>Available only in some POSIX systems, this call results in a
+ call to fsync(), or has no effect in systems not implementing
+ the fdatasync() syscall.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>