diff --git a/docs/patterns/jquery.rst b/docs/patterns/jquery.rst
index a97f7ff4..f2ca39c5 100644
--- a/docs/patterns/jquery.rst
+++ b/docs/patterns/jquery.rst
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Another method is using Google's `AJAX Libraries API
 
 In this case you don't have to put jQuery into your static folder, it will
 instead be loaded from Google directly.  This has the advantage that your
-website will probably load faster for users if they were to at least one
+website will probably load faster for users if they went to at least one
 other website before using the same jQuery version from Google because it
 will already be in the browser cache.  Downside is that if you don't have
 network connectivity during development jQuery will not load.
diff --git a/docs/patterns/mongokit.rst b/docs/patterns/mongokit.rst
index 27f182a3..c1727c80 100644
--- a/docs/patterns/mongokit.rst
+++ b/docs/patterns/mongokit.rst
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Using a document database rather than a full DBMS gets more common these days.
 This pattern shows how to use MongoKit, a document mapper library, to
 integrate with MongoDB.
 
-This pattern requires an running MongoDB server and the MongoKit library
+This pattern requires a running MongoDB server and the MongoKit library
 installed.
 
 There are two very common ways to use MongoKit.  I will outline each of them