diff --git a/rpc/core/README.md b/rpc/core/README.md
index 7dff4dfca..1ed2f8494 100644
--- a/rpc/core/README.md
+++ b/rpc/core/README.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 ## Generate markdown for [Slate](https://github.com/tendermint/slate)
 
-We are using [Slate](https://github.com/lord/slate) to power our RPC
+We are using [Slate](https://github.com/tendermint/slate) to power our RPC
 documentation. If you are changing a comment, make sure to copy the resulting
 changes to the slate repo and make a PR
 [there](https://github.com/tendermint/slate) as well. For generating markdown
diff --git a/rpc/core/doc.go b/rpc/core/doc.go
index 7902ade25..a72cec020 100644
--- a/rpc/core/doc.go
+++ b/rpc/core/doc.go
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Tendermint supports the following RPC protocols:
 * JSONRPC over HTTP
 * JSONRPC over websockets
 
-Tendermint RPC is build using [our own RPC library](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/tree/master/rpc/lib). Documentation and tests for that library could be found at `tendermint/rpc/lib` directory.
+Tendermint RPC is built using [our own RPC library](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/tree/master/rpc/lib). Documentation and tests for that library could be found at `tendermint/rpc/lib` directory.
 
 ## Configuration
 
diff --git a/rpc/core/events.go b/rpc/core/events.go
index 377368d00..4671d3417 100644
--- a/rpc/core/events.go
+++ b/rpc/core/events.go
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import (
 // Subscribe for events via WebSocket.
 //
 // ```go
-// import 'github.com/tendermint/tendermint/types'
+// import "github.com/tendermint/tendermint/types"
 //
 // client := client.NewHTTP("tcp://0.0.0.0:46657", "/websocket")
 // result, err := client.AddListenerForEvent(types.EventStringNewBlock())
diff --git a/rpc/core/tx.go b/rpc/core/tx.go
index 55999197d..03a911e2c 100644
--- a/rpc/core/tx.go
+++ b/rpc/core/tx.go
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import (
 )
 
 // Tx allows you to query the transaction results. `nil` could mean the
-// transaction is in the mempool, invalidated, or was not send in the first
+// transaction is in the mempool, invalidated, or was not sent in the first
 // place.
 //
 // ```shell