diff --git a/akka-docs/rst/java/persistence.rst b/akka-docs/rst/java/persistence.rst
index b19b241d19..3618ccb16c 100644
--- a/akka-docs/rst/java/persistence.rst
+++ b/akka-docs/rst/java/persistence.rst
@@ -219,10 +219,10 @@ maximum stash capacity in the mailbox configuration::
 
 Note that the stash capacity is per actor. If you have many persistent actors, e.g. when using cluster sharding,
 you may need to define a small stash capacity to ensure that the total number of stashed messages in the system
-don't consume too much memory. Additionally, The persistent actor defines three strategies to handle failure when the 
+doesn't consume too much memory. Additionally, the persistent actor defines three strategies to handle failure when the 
 internal stash capacity is exceeded. The default overflow strategy is the ``ThrowOverflowExceptionStrategy``, which 
-discards the current received message and throws a ``StashOverflowException``, causing actor restart if default 
-supervision strategy is used. you can override the ``internalStashOverflowStrategy`` method to return 
+discards the current received message and throws a ``StashOverflowException``, causing actor restart if the default 
+supervision strategy is used. You can override the ``internalStashOverflowStrategy`` method to return 
 ``DiscardToDeadLetterStrategy`` or ``ReplyToStrategy`` for any "individual" persistent actor, or define the "default" 
 for all persistent actors by providing FQCN, which must be a subclass of ``StashOverflowStrategyConfigurator``, in the 
 persistence configuration::
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ persistence configuration::
 The ``DiscardToDeadLetterStrategy`` strategy also has a pre-packaged companion configurator 
 ``akka.persistence.DiscardConfigurator``.
 
-You can also query default strategy via the Akka persistence extension singleton::
+You can also query the default strategy via the Akka persistence extension singleton::
 
     Persistence.get(getContext().system()).defaultInternalStashOverflowStrategy();
 
diff --git a/akka-docs/rst/scala/persistence.rst b/akka-docs/rst/scala/persistence.rst
index f2168a9a22..728d68f442 100644
--- a/akka-docs/rst/scala/persistence.rst
+++ b/akka-docs/rst/scala/persistence.rst
@@ -218,10 +218,10 @@ maximum stash capacity in the mailbox configuration::
 
 Note that the stash capacity is per actor. If you have many persistent actors, e.g. when using cluster sharding,
 you may need to define a small stash capacity to ensure that the total number of stashed messages in the system
-don't consume too much memory. Additionally, The persistent actor defines three strategies to handle failure when the 
+doesn't consume too much memory. Additionally, the persistent actor defines three strategies to handle failure when the 
 internal stash capacity is exceeded. The default overflow strategy is the ``ThrowOverflowExceptionStrategy``, which 
-discards the current received message and throws a ``StashOverflowException``, causing actor restart if default 
-supervision strategy is used. you can override the ``internalStashOverflowStrategy`` method to return 
+discards the current received message and throws a ``StashOverflowException``, causing actor restart if the default 
+supervision strategy is used. You can override the ``internalStashOverflowStrategy`` method to return 
 ``DiscardToDeadLetterStrategy`` or ``ReplyToStrategy`` for any "individual" persistent actor, or define the "default" 
 for all persistent actors by providing FQCN, which must be a subclass of ``StashOverflowStrategyConfigurator``, in the 
 persistence configuration::
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ persistence configuration::
 The ``DiscardToDeadLetterStrategy`` strategy also has a pre-packaged companion configurator 
 ``akka.persistence.DiscardConfigurator``.
 
-You can also query default strategy via the Akka persistence extension singleton::
+You can also query the default strategy via the Akka persistence extension singleton::
 
     Persistence(context.system).defaultInternalStashOverflowStrategy