diff --git a/spacy/pipeline/pipe.pyx b/spacy/pipeline/pipe.pyx
index d24e4d574..4e3ae1cf0 100644
--- a/spacy/pipeline/pipe.pyx
+++ b/spacy/pipeline/pipe.pyx
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ cdef class Pipe:
         and returned. This usually happens under the hood when the nlp object
         is called on a text and all components are applied to the Doc.
 
-        docs (Doc): The Doc to process.
+        doc (Doc): The Doc to process.
         RETURNS (Doc): The processed Doc.
 
         DOCS: https://spacy.io/api/pipe#call
diff --git a/spacy/training/example.pyx b/spacy/training/example.pyx
index ab92f78c6..3035388a6 100644
--- a/spacy/training/example.pyx
+++ b/spacy/training/example.pyx
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ cdef class Example:
 
     def get_aligned_sent_starts(self):
         """Get list of SENT_START attributes aligned to the predicted tokenization.
-        If the reference has not sentence starts, return a list of None values.
+        If the reference does not have sentence starts, return a list of None values.
         """
         if self.y.has_annotation("SENT_START"):
             align = self.alignment.y2x