diff --git a/IPIP/0000-gateway-tar-response-format.md b/IPIP/0000-gateway-tar-response-format.md
index 277f8b472..6a01a2d18 100644
--- a/IPIP/0000-gateway-tar-response-format.md
+++ b/IPIP/0000-gateway-tar-response-format.md
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ URL query.
 Existing `curl` and `tar` tools can be used by implementers for testing.
 
 Providing static test vectors has little value here, as different TAR libraries may produce
-different byte-to-byte files  due to unspecified ordering of files and directories inside.
+different byte-to-byte files due to unspecified ordering of files and directories inside.
 
 ## Design rationale
 
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ CLI users will be able to download a directory with existing tools like `curl` a
 
 ### Compatibility
 
-This RFC is backwards compatible .
+This RFC is backwards compatible.
 
 ### Security
 
diff --git a/http-gateways/PATH_GATEWAY.md b/http-gateways/PATH_GATEWAY.md
index 796d3a0d8..30ae4e15c 100644
--- a/http-gateways/PATH_GATEWAY.md
+++ b/http-gateways/PATH_GATEWAY.md
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ Returned directive depends on requested content path and format:
     value, but it should not be lower than 60 seconds.
 
 - `Cache-Control: no-cache, no-transform`  should be returned with
-  `application/x-tar` responses if the TAR response, is not guaranteed
+  `application/x-tar` responses if the TAR response is not guaranteed
   to be deterministic.
 
 ### `Last-Modified` (response header)