diff --git a/lib/_http_client.js b/lib/_http_client.js
index e705117ab63..e490dce5d82 100644
--- a/lib/_http_client.js
+++ b/lib/_http_client.js
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ function socketCloseListener() {
   // is a no-op if no final chunk remains.
   socket.read();
 
-  // NOTE: Its important to get parser here, because it could be freed by
+  // NOTE: It's important to get parser here, because it could be freed by
   // the `socketOnData`.
   var parser = socket.parser;
   req.emit('close');
diff --git a/src/tls_wrap.cc b/src/tls_wrap.cc
index e4b0dc49c69..381690c79d7 100644
--- a/src/tls_wrap.cc
+++ b/src/tls_wrap.cc
@@ -561,8 +561,8 @@ int TLSWrap::DoWrite(WriteWrap* w,
     }
   if (empty) {
     ClearOut();
-    // However if there any data that should be written to socket,
-    // callback should not be invoked immediately
+    // However, if there is any data that should be written to the socket,
+    // the callback should not be invoked immediately
     if (BIO_pending(enc_out_) == 0)
       return stream_->DoWrite(w, bufs, count, send_handle);
   }