diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 99d30e72..5ad9c66b 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ beings.
 
 Most existing Python modules for sending HTTP requests are extremely
 verbose and cumbersome. Python's builtin urllib2 module provides most of
-the HTTP capabilities you should need, but the api is thoroughly broken.
+the HTTP capabilities you should need, but the API is thoroughly broken.
 It requires an enormous amount of work (even method overrides) to
 perform the simplest of tasks.
 
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ Things shouldn't be this way. Not in Python.
 
 See `the same code, without Requests <https://gist.github.com/973705>`_.
 
-Requests allow you to send HTTP/1.1 requests. You can add headers, form data,
-multipart files, and parameters with simple Python dictionaries, and access the
+Requests allows you to send HTTP/1.1 requests. You can add headers, form data,
+multi-part files, and parameters with simple Python dictionaries, and access the
 response data in the same way. It's powered by httplib and `urllib3
 <https://github.com/shazow/urllib3>`_, but it does all the hard work and crazy
 hacks for you.