diff --git a/Documentation/config/format.txt b/Documentation/config/format.txt
index 8cf6f00d9365cf..c98412b697efea 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/format.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/format.txt
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ format.encodeEmailHeaders::
 	Defaults to true.
 
 format.pretty::
-	The default pretty format for log/show/whatchanged command,
+	The default pretty format for log/show/whatchanged command.
 	See linkgit:git-log[1], linkgit:git-show[1],
 	linkgit:git-whatchanged[1].
 
diff --git a/Documentation/config/fsck.txt b/Documentation/config/fsck.txt
index 57114161063047..2384c8c94d6d03 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/fsck.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/fsck.txt
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ uniformly configure the same fsck settings in different circumstances
 all three of them must be set to the same values.
 +
 Older versions of Git (before 2.20) documented that the object names
-list should be sorted. This was never a requirement, the object names
+list should be sorted. This was never a requirement; the object names
 could appear in any order, but when reading the list we tracked whether
 the list was sorted for the purposes of an internal binary search
 implementation, which could save itself some work with an already sorted
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fsmonitor--daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-fsmonitor--daemon.txt
index 324299bfe9b5aa..65c7b4641e875a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fsmonitor--daemon.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fsmonitor--daemon.txt
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ but not on network-mounted filesystems, NTFS, or FAT32.  Other filesystems
 may or may not have the needed support; the fsmonitor daemon is not guaranteed
 to work with these filesystems and such use is considered experimental.
 
-By default, the socket is created in the `.git` directory, however, if the
+By default, the socket is created in the `.git` directory.  However, if the
 `.git` directory is on a network-mounted filesystem, it will instead be
 created at `$HOME/.git-fsmonitor-*` unless `$HOME` itself is on a
 network-mounted filesystem in which case you must set the configuration
diff --git a/Documentation/git-init.txt b/Documentation/git-init.txt
index 3c3c1e730c3695..6f0d2973bf444a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-init.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-init.txt
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ to use instead of `./.git` for the base of the repository.
 
 If the object storage directory is specified via the
 `$GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY` environment variable then the sha1 directories
-are created underneath - otherwise the default `$GIT_DIR/objects`
+are created underneath; otherwise, the default `$GIT_DIR/objects`
 directory is used.
 
 Running 'git init' in an existing repository is safe. It will not
diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
index 60d1cca14960bd..f65a8cd91d4bb4 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	matching an exclude pattern.  When showing "other" files
 	(i.e. when used with '-o'), show only those matched by an
 	exclude pattern.  Standard ignore rules are not automatically
-	activated, therefore at least one of the `--exclude*` options
+	activated; therefore, at least one of the `--exclude*` options
 	is required.
 
 -s::
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	Show status tags together with filenames.  Note that for
 	scripting purposes, linkgit:git-status[1] `--porcelain` and
 	linkgit:git-diff-files[1] `--name-status` are almost always
-	superior alternatives, and users should look at
+	superior alternatives; users should look at
 	linkgit:git-status[1] `--short` or linkgit:git-diff[1]
 	`--name-status` for more user-friendly alternatives.
 +