diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index 4cd2638b..f5f6c624 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ ways:
   * It's the first real release of Phoenix, which is built on a different
     foundation than Classic wxPython was.
 
-  * It's the first wxPython release intended to be available from PyPI and
+  * It's the first wxPython release intended to be fully available from PyPI and
     buildable/installable by pip.
 
   * It's the first release for Python 3.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ for them.
 
 Due to some things being cleaned up, reorganized, simplified and dehackified
 wxPython Phoenix is not completely backwards compatible with wxPython Classic.
-This is as intended. In general, however, the API differences tend to be minor
+This is intended. In general, however, the API differences tend to be minor
 and some applications can use Phoenix with slight, or even no modifications.
 In some other cases the correct way to do things was also available in Classic
 and it's only the wrong way that has been removed from Phoenix.  For more
diff --git a/docs/MigrationGuide.rst b/docs/MigrationGuide.rst
index 85f3e506..f9835a77 100644
--- a/docs/MigrationGuide.rst
+++ b/docs/MigrationGuide.rst
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ The version numbers for wxPython are no longer kept in sync with the wxWidgets
 version number. In the past the common version number was used to indicate
 exactly which version of wxWidgets should be used for the wxPython build. Now
 wxWidgets is a git submodule, and the linked version is included in the
-wxPython source tarball there is no longer any need to use the matching
+wxPython source tarball, so there is no longer any need to use the matching
 version numbers to implicitly specify the version of the wxWidgets source to
 use.