diff --git a/doc/manpages/swift.1 b/doc/manpages/swift.1
index 575adbe4..beefb818 100644
--- a/doc/manpages/swift.1
+++ b/doc/manpages/swift.1
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ For more details and options see swift delete \-\-help.
 \fBcapabilities\fR [\fIproxy-url\fR]
 .RS 4
 Displays cluster capabilities. The output includes the list of the activated
-Swift middlewares as well as relevant options for each ones. Addtionaly the
+Swift middlewares as well as relevant options for each one. Additionally the
 command displays relevant options for the Swift core. If the proxy-url option
 is not provided the storage-url retrieved after authentication is used as
 proxy-url.
diff --git a/doc/source/client-api.rst b/doc/source/client-api.rst
index 5677f70d..b0bb6370 100644
--- a/doc/source/client-api.rst
+++ b/doc/source/client-api.rst
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Authentication
 --------------
 
 This section covers the various combinations of kwargs required when creating
-and instance of the ``Connection`` object for communicating with a swift
+an instance of the ``Connection`` object for communicating with a swift
 object store. The combinations of options required for each authentication
 version are detailed below, but are
 just a subset of those that can be used to successfully authenticate. These
diff --git a/doc/source/service-api.rst b/doc/source/service-api.rst
index d165e5ed..66107436 100644
--- a/doc/source/service-api.rst
+++ b/doc/source/service-api.rst
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ Options
         when the source of an upload is ``None``.
 
     ``checksum``: ``True``
-        Affects uploads and downloads, and means if check md5 for downloads/uploads.
+        Affects uploads and downloads. If set check md5 sum for the transfer.
 
     ``shuffle``: ``False``
         When downloading objects, the default behaviour of the CLI is to shuffle