diff --git a/src/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol.csproj b/src/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol.csproj
index b2fcbcddcf9..e29b6855e7a 100644
--- a/src/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol.csproj
+++ b/src/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol.csproj
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
     <!--
         There is an integration test for the OTLP exporter that runs a test targeting netcoreapp2.1, netcoreapp3.1 and net5.0.
-        The .NET Core 2.1 SDK cannot handle the presense of a netstandard2.1 target, so this project fails to build for the
+        The .NET Core 2.1 SDK cannot handle the presence of a netstandard2.1 target, so this project fails to build for the
         netcoreapp2.1 test with the following error:
 
             /usr/share/dotnet/sdk/2.1.811/Sdks/Microsoft.NET.Sdk/targets/Microsoft.NET.TargetFrameworkInference.targets(150,5):
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
             Either target .NET Standard 2.0 or lower, or use a version of the .NET SDK that supports .NET Standard 2.1.
             [/repo/src/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol.csproj]
 
-        When the CI runs the integration test, the TARGET_FRAMEWORK variable is set. The presense of this variable is used
+        When the CI runs the integration test, the TARGET_FRAMEWORK variable is set. The presence of this variable is used
         to determine whether to include the netstandard2.1 target.
 
         Ideally, this would check the version of the SDK used to build the project rather than a check that is dependent on