diff --git a/files/en-us/web/html/element/input/month/index.md b/files/en-us/web/html/element/input/month/index.md
index cccda3e3d13c112..d4a5b231b307501 100644
--- a/files/en-us/web/html/element/input/month/index.md
+++ b/files/en-us/web/html/element/input/month/index.md
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ The value is a string whose value is in the format `YYYY-MM`, where `YYYY` is th
 {{EmbedInteractiveExample("pages/tabbed/input-month.html", "tabbed-shorter")}}
 
 The control's UI varies in general from browser to browser; at the moment support is patchy, with only Chrome/Opera and Edge on desktop — and most modern mobile browser versions — having usable implementations.
-In browsers that don't support `month` inputs, the control degrades gracefully to a simple [`<input type="text">`](/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/text), although there may be automatic validation of the entered text to ensure it's formatted as expected.
+In browsers that don't support `month` inputs, the control degrades gracefully to [`<input type="text">`](/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/text), although there may be automatic validation of the entered text to ensure it's formatted as expected.
 
 For those of you using a browser that doesn't support `month`, the screenshot below shows what it looks like in Chrome and Opera.
 Clicking the down arrow on the right-hand side brings up a date picker that lets you select the month and year.
diff --git a/files/en-us/web/html/element/input/number/index.md b/files/en-us/web/html/element/input/number/index.md
index 735f8510b06deac..a5bbba25f02e356 100644
--- a/files/en-us/web/html/element/input/number/index.md
+++ b/files/en-us/web/html/element/input/number/index.md
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ switchBtn.addEventListener("click", () => {
 });
 ```
 
-After declaring a few variables, an event listener is added to the `button` to control the switching mechanism. This is pretty simple, mostly involving changing over the button's `class` and {{HTMLElement("label")}}, and updating the display values of the two sets of inputs when the button is pressed.
+After declaring a few variables, an event listener is added to the `button` to control the switching mechanism. This involves changing over the button's `class` and {{HTMLElement("label")}}, and updating the display values of the two sets of inputs when the button is pressed.
 
 (Note that we're not converting back and forth between meters and feet/inches here, which a real-life web application would probably do.)
 
diff --git a/files/en-us/web/html/element/input/time/index.md b/files/en-us/web/html/element/input/time/index.md
index 17adb5d414496f0..b9e9ddf54787760 100644
--- a/files/en-us/web/html/element/input/time/index.md
+++ b/files/en-us/web/html/element/input/time/index.md
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ The `value` of the `time` input is always in 24-hour format that includes leadin
 
 In this example, you can see the time input's value by entering a time and seeing how it changes afterward.
 
-First, a look at the HTML. This is simple enough, with the label and input as we've seen before, but with the addition of a {{HTMLElement("p")}} element with a {{HTMLElement("span")}} to display the value of the `time` input:
+First, a look at the HTML. We include a label and input, and add a {{HTMLElement("p")}} element with a {{HTMLElement("span")}} to display the value of the `time` input:
 
 ```html
 <form>
diff --git a/files/en-us/web/html/element/var/index.md b/files/en-us/web/html/element/var/index.md
index 1e9ec625e38beeb..662f132a99c134c 100644
--- a/files/en-us/web/html/element/var/index.md
+++ b/files/en-us/web/html/element/var/index.md
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ var {
 
 ### Basic example
 
-Here's a simple example, using `<var>` to denote variable names in a mathematical equation.
+Here's a basic example, using `<var>` to denote variable names in a mathematical equation.
 
 ```html
 <p>A simple equation: <var>x</var> = <var>y</var> + 2</p>