diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst
index a298d97c9c3..7ef4cbeee79 100644
--- a/Doc/library/re.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/re.rst
@@ -762,7 +762,7 @@ form.
       now are errors.
 
    .. deprecated-removed:: 3.5 3.7
-      Unknown escapes in *repl* consist of ``'\'`` and ASCII letter now raise
+      Unknown escapes in *repl* consisting of ``'\'`` and an ASCII letter now raise
       a deprecation warning and will be forbidden in Python 3.7.
 
 
diff --git a/Objects/abstract.c b/Objects/abstract.c
index f9afece815b..d838856d452 100644
--- a/Objects/abstract.c
+++ b/Objects/abstract.c
@@ -2325,7 +2325,7 @@ _PyObject_FastCallDict(PyObject *func, PyObject **args, Py_ssize_t nargs,
     return result;
 }
 
-/* Positional arguments are obj followed args. */
+/* Positional arguments are obj followed by args. */
 PyObject *
 _PyObject_Call_Prepend(PyObject *func,
                        PyObject *obj, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwargs)