diff --git a/src/doc/trpl/choosing-your-guarantees.md b/src/doc/trpl/choosing-your-guarantees.md
index 68812f342f133..f14b09c25b254 100644
--- a/src/doc/trpl/choosing-your-guarantees.md
+++ b/src/doc/trpl/choosing-your-guarantees.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 % Choosing your Guarantees
 
-One important feature of Rust as language is that it lets us control the costs and guarantees
+One important feature of Rust is that it lets us control the costs and guarantees
 of a program.
 
 There are various “wrapper type” abstractions in the Rust standard library which embody
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ allowed to share references to this by the regular borrowing rules, checked at c
 
 [box]: ../std/boxed/struct.Box.html
 
-## `&T` and `&mut T` 
+## `&T` and `&mut T`
 
 These are immutable and mutable references respectively. They follow the “read-write lock”
 pattern, such that one may either have only one mutable reference to some data, or any number of