diff --git a/scrapy/http/cookies.py b/scrapy/http/cookies.py
index e2c0cf864..8edeae01c 100644
--- a/scrapy/http/cookies.py
+++ b/scrapy/http/cookies.py
@@ -137,8 +137,8 @@ class _DummyLock:
 
 class WrappedRequest:
     """Wraps a :class:`scrapy.Request` class with methods defined by
-    :class:`urllib.request.Request` class to interact with
-    :class:`http.cookiejar.CookieJar` class.
+    the :class:`urllib.request.Request` class to interact with
+    the :class:`http.cookiejar.CookieJar` class.
     """
 
     def __init__(self, request: Request):
diff --git a/scrapy/pipelines/files.py b/scrapy/pipelines/files.py
index f6e6072ad..44c422430 100644
--- a/scrapy/pipelines/files.py
+++ b/scrapy/pipelines/files.py
@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ class FTPFilesStore:
 
 
 class FilesPipeline(MediaPipeline):
-    """Pipeline that implements the file downloading.
+    """Pipeline that implements file downloading.
 
     This pipeline tries to minimize network transfers and file processing,
     doing stat of the files and determining if file is new, up-to-date or
diff --git a/scrapy/utils/signal.py b/scrapy/utils/signal.py
index c65d0c73b..eca95e225 100644
--- a/scrapy/utils/signal.py
+++ b/scrapy/utils/signal.py
@@ -172,7 +172,8 @@ async def _send_catch_log_asyncio(
 
     Returns a coroutine that completes once all signal handlers have finished.
 
-    This function an installed asyncio reactor or a running asyncio event loop.
+    This function requires an installed asyncio reactor or a running asyncio
+    event loop.
 
     .. versionadded:: 2.14
     """
diff --git a/scrapy/utils/url.py b/scrapy/utils/url.py
index e4967c86a..f67853ece 100644
--- a/scrapy/utils/url.py
+++ b/scrapy/utils/url.py
@@ -117,8 +117,8 @@ def strip_url(
     - ``strip_credentials`` removes "user:password@"
     - ``strip_default_port`` removes ":80" (resp. ":443", ":21")
       from http:// (resp. https://, ftp://) URLs
-    - ``origin_only`` replaces path component with "/", also dropping
-      query component; it also strips credentials
+    - ``origin_only`` replaces the  path component with "/", also dropping
+      the query component; it also strips credentials
     - ``strip_fragment`` drops any #fragment component
     """