diff --git a/kivy/uix/floatlayout.py b/kivy/uix/floatlayout.py
index 1aaa9ed25..5a067df69 100644
--- a/kivy/uix/floatlayout.py
+++ b/kivy/uix/floatlayout.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 Float Layout
 ============
 
-The :class:`FloatLayout` class will only honor the :data:`Widget.pos_hint` and
+The :class:`FloatLayout` class honors only the :data:`Widget.pos_hint` and
 :data:`Widget.size_hint` attributes.
 
 .. only:: html
@@ -15,18 +15,18 @@ The :class:`FloatLayout` class will only honor the :data:`Widget.pos_hint` and
     .. image:: images/floatlayout.png
         :align: right
 
-For example, if you create a FloatLayout with size a of (300, 300)::
+For example, say you create a FloatLayout with a size of (300, 300)::
 
     layout = FloatLayout(size=(300, 300))
 
-By default, all widgets have size_hint=(1, 1), so this button will have the
-same size as the layout::
+By default, all widgets have their size_hint=(1, 1), so this button will adopt
+the same size as the layout::
 
     button = Button(text='Hello world')
     layout.add_widget(button)
 
-To create a button of 50% width and 25% height of the layout and positioned at
-(20, 20), you can do::
+To create a button 50% of the width and 25% of the height of the layout and
+positioned at (20, 20), you can do::
 
     button = Button(
         text='Hello world',
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ If you want to create a button that will always be the size of layout minus
 
 .. warning::
 
-    If you are not using pos_hint, you must handle the position of
-    children: If the float layout is moving, you must handle moving
+    If you are not using pos_hint, you must handle the positioning of the
+    children: If the float layout is moving, you must handle moving the
     children too.
 
 '''