diff --git a/Docs/HowToUse.md b/Docs/HowToUse.md
index bb4fb6ba..492d06ed 100644
--- a/Docs/HowToUse.md
+++ b/Docs/HowToUse.md
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Note: neither your success nor failure block will be call if your image request
 
 The `SDWebImageManager` is the class behind the `UIImageView(WebCache)` category. It ties the asynchronous downloader with the image cache store. You can use this class directly to benefit from web image downloading with caching in another context than a `UIView` (ie: with Cocoa).
 
-Note: When the image is from memory cache, it will not contains any `NSData` by default. However, if you need image data, you can pass `SDWebImageQueryDataWhenInMemory` in options arg.
+Note: When the image is from memory cache, it will not contain any `NSData` by default. However, if you need image data, you can pass `SDWebImageQueryDataWhenInMemory` in options arg.
 
 Here is a simple example of how to use `SDWebImageManager`:
 
@@ -95,11 +95,11 @@ SDWebImageDownloader *downloader = [SDWebImageDownloader sharedDownloader];
 
 ### Using Asynchronous Image Caching Independently
 
-It is also possible to use the async based image cache store independently. SDImageCache
+It is also possible to use the async based image cache store independently. `SDImageCache`
 maintains a memory cache and an optional disk cache. Disk cache write operations are performed
 asynchronous so it doesn't add unnecessary latency to the UI.
 
-The SDImageCache class provides a singleton instance for convenience but you can create your own
+The `SDImageCache` class provides a singleton instance for convenience but you can create your own
 instance if you want to create separated cache namespace.
 
 To lookup the cache, you use the `queryDiskCacheForKey:done:` method. If the method returns nil, it means the cache
@@ -114,10 +114,10 @@ SDImageCache *imageCache = [[SDImageCache alloc] initWithNamespace:@"myNamespace
 }];
 ```
 
-By default SDImageCache will lookup the disk cache if an image can't be found in the memory cache.
+By default `SDImageCache` will lookup the disk cache if an image can't be found in the memory cache.
 You can prevent this from happening by calling the alternative method `imageFromMemoryCacheForKey:`.
 
-To store an image into the cache, you use the storeImage:forKey:completion: method:
+To store an image into the cache, you use the `storeImage:forKey:completion:` method:
 
 ```objective-c
 [[SDImageCache sharedImageCache] storeImage:myImage forKey:myCacheKey completion:^{
@@ -126,14 +126,14 @@ To store an image into the cache, you use the storeImage:forKey:completion: meth
 ```
 
 By default, the image will be stored in memory cache as well as on disk cache (asynchronously). If
-you want only the memory cache, use the alternative method storeImage:forKey:toDisk:completion: with a negative
+you want only the memory cache, use the alternative method `storeImage:forKey:toDisk:completion:` with a negative
 third argument.
 
 ### Using cache key filter
 
 Sometime, you may not want to use the image URL as cache key because part of the URL is dynamic
-(i.e.: for access control purpose). SDWebImageManager provides a way to set a cache key filter that
-takes the NSURL as input, and output a cache key NSString.
+(i.e.: for access control purpose). `SDWebImageManager` provides a way to set a cache key filter that
+takes the `NSURL` as input, and output a cache key `NSString`.
 
 The following example sets a filter in the application delegate that will remove any query-string from
 the URL before to use it as a cache key:
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 59f1e0b2..b8632da7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ This animated image solution is available for `iOS`/`tvOS`/`macOS`. The `SDAnima
 
 The `SDAnimatedImageView` supports the familiar image loading category methods, works like drop-in replacement for `UIImageView/NSImageView`.
 
-Don't have UIView (like WatchKit or CALayer)? you can still use `SDAnimatedPlayer` the player engine for advanced playback and rendering.
+Don't have `UIView` (like `WatchKit` or `CALayer`)? you can still use `SDAnimatedPlayer` the player engine for advanced playback and rendering.
 
 See [Animated Image](https://github.com/SDWebImage/SDWebImage/wiki/Advanced-Usage#animated-image-50) for more detailed information.
 
@@ -209,9 +209,9 @@ pod 'SDWebImage', '~> 5.0'
 
 ##### Swift and static framework
 
-Swift project previously have to use `use_frameworks!` to make all Pods into dynamic framework to let CocoaPods works.
+Swift project previously had to use `use_frameworks!` to make all Pods into dynamic framework to let CocoaPods work.
 
-However, start with `CocoaPods 1.5.0+` (with `Xcode 9+`), which supports to build both Objective-C && Swift code into static framework. You can use modular headers to use SDWebImage as static framework, without the need of `use_frameworks!`:
+However, starting with `CocoaPods 1.5.0+` (with `Xcode 9+`), which supports to build both Objective-C && Swift code into static framework. You can use modular headers to use SDWebImage as static framework, without the need of `use_frameworks!`:
 
 ```
 platform :ios, '8.0'