diff --git a/runtime/doc/quickfix.txt b/runtime/doc/quickfix.txt
index 4877648..b8ad858 100644
--- a/runtime/doc/quickfix.txt
+++ b/runtime/doc/quickfix.txt
@@ -1705,7 +1705,7 @@
 directory and that it doesn't print the absolute path.
 
 To solve the problem with relative paths and missing "leave directory"
-messages Vim uses following algorithm:
+messages Vim uses the following algorithm:
 
 1) Check if the given directory is a subdirectory of the current directory.
    If this is true, store it as the current directory.
@@ -1938,7 +1938,7 @@
 The values displayed in each line correspond to the "bufnr", "lnum", "col" and
 "text" fields returned by the |getqflist()| function.
 
-For some quickfix/location lists, the displayed text need to be customized.
+For some quickfix/location lists, the displayed text needs to be customized.
 For example, if only the filename is present for a quickfix entry, then the
 two "|" field separator characters after the filename are not needed.  Another
 use case is to customize the path displayed for a filename. By default, the