diff --git a/docs/topics/architecture.rst b/docs/topics/architecture.rst
index 84c053660..91c80acc0 100644
--- a/docs/topics/architecture.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/architecture.rst
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Data flow
 The data flow in Scrapy is controlled by the execution engine, and goes like
 this:
 
-1. The :ref:`Engine <component-engine>` gets the first Requests to crawl from the
+1. The :ref:`Engine <component-engine>` gets the initial Requests to crawl from the
    :ref:`Spider <component-spiders>`.
 
 2. The :ref:`Engine <component-engine>` schedules the Requests in the
@@ -62,11 +62,11 @@ this:
    :ref:`Spider Middleware <component-spider-middleware>` (output direction).
 
 8. The :ref:`Engine <component-engine>` sends processed items to
-   :ref:`Item Pipelines <component-pipelines>`, then sends processed Requests to
-   the :ref:`Scheduler <component-scheduler>` and asks for the next
-   Requests to crawl.
+   :ref:`Item Pipelines <component-pipelines>`, then send processed Requests to
+   the :ref:`Scheduler <component-scheduler>` and asks for possible next Requests
+   to crawl.
 
-9. The process repeats (from step 2) until there are no more requests from the
+9. The process repeats (from step 1) until there are no more requests from the
    :ref:`Scheduler <component-scheduler>`.
 
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