2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/usage/administration/admin_api/background_updates.md b/docs/usage/administration/admin_api/background_updates.md
index 9f6ac7d567..7b75ee5587 100644
--- a/docs/usage/administration/admin_api/background_updates.md
+++ b/docs/usage/administration/admin_api/background_updates.md
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ For each update:
## Enabled
-This API allow pausing background updates.
+This API allows pausing background updates.
Background updates should *not* be paused for significant periods of time, as
this can affect the performance of Synapse.
diff --git a/docs/usage/administration/admin_faq.md b/docs/usage/administration/admin_faq.md
index 092dcc1c84..0d98f73fb1 100644
--- a/docs/usage/administration/admin_faq.md
+++ b/docs/usage/administration/admin_faq.md
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ in memory constrained environments, or increased if performance starts to
degrade.
However, degraded performance due to a low cache factor, common on
-machines with slow disks, often leads to explosions in memory use due
+machines with slow disks, often leads to explosions in memory use due to
backlogged requests. In this case, reducing the cache factor will make
things worse. Instead, try increasing it drastically. 2.0 is a good
starting value.
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