diff --git a/content/docs/api/db/obj/contents.lr b/content/docs/api/db/obj/contents.lr
index b824d3ac..59bf502a 100644
--- a/content/docs/api/db/obj/contents.lr
+++ b/content/docs/api/db/obj/contents.lr
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ database.  There are two types of source objects:
 * [Assets :ref](../asset/) which are files and directories from the
   `assets/` folder.
 
-Whatever object you have in hands that comes from the database, they will
+Whatever object you have in hand that comes from the database, they will
 at least provide a minimal useful set of API methods and properties.
 
 Plugins can subclass source objects to come up with their own source
diff --git a/content/docs/api/db/pad/contents.lr b/content/docs/api/db/pad/contents.lr
index 51c1785f..ac711971 100644
--- a/content/docs/api/db/pad/contents.lr
+++ b/content/docs/api/db/pad/contents.lr
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ The `Pad` is a helper class that provides basic access to querying the
 database.  Inside templates an instance of it is available under the
 `site` variable automatically.
 
-To understand what the pad does you need to consider what it does.  The
+To understand what the pad does you need to consider what it is.  The
 pad is similar to a `connection` in a regular database.  Whenever you
 load a record it's temporarily cached on the pad.  So unless you overflow
 the cache, loading the object a second time will most likely return an