diff --git a/docs/guide/installation.md b/docs/guide/installation.md
index aaa2a43bbf..36b4d0b6b6 100644
--- a/docs/guide/installation.md
+++ b/docs/guide/installation.md
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ opt-out, or you run a custom shell you will need to do this manually.
     ```
 
     In some setups `.profile` is not sourced, in which case you can add it to your
-    `.bashrc` instead:
+    `.bashrc`:
 
     ```bash
     echo 'source "$HOME/.rye/env"' >> ~/.bashrc
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ opt-out, or you run a custom shell you will need to do this manually.
     ```
 
     In some setups `.profile` is not sourced, in which case you can add it to your
-    `.zprofile` instead:
+    `.zprofile`:
 
     ```bash
     echo 'source "$HOME/.rye/env"' >> ~/.zprofile
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ opt-out, or you run a custom shell you will need to do this manually.
 
 === "Fish"
 
-    Since fish does not support `env` files, you instead need to add
+    Since fish does not support `env` files, you need to add
     the shims directly.  This can be accomplished by running this
     command once:
 
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ opt-out, or you run a custom shell you will need to do this manually.
 
 === "Nushell"
 
-    Since nushell does not support `env` files, you instead need to add
+    Since nushell does not support `env` files, you need to add
     the shims directly.  This can be accomplished by adding this to your
     `env.nu` file:
 
diff --git a/docs/guide/pyproject.md b/docs/guide/pyproject.md
index 21ea362cdd..832b6b0309 100644
--- a/docs/guide/pyproject.md
+++ b/docs/guide/pyproject.md
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ devserver = { cmd = "flask run --debug", env = { FLASK_APP = "./hello.py" } }
 
 This is a special key that can be set instead of `cmd` to make a command invoke multiple
 other commands.  Each command will be executed one after another.  If any of the commands
-fails the rest of the commands won't be executed and instead the chain fails.
+fails, the rest of the commands won't be executed and the chain fails.
 
 ```toml
 [tool.rye.scripts]
diff --git a/notes/metasrv.md b/notes/metasrv.md
index 2a05aae99e..d036e0131f 100644
--- a/notes/metasrv.md
+++ b/notes/metasrv.md
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ If you have ever hit that URL you will have realized that it's an enormous HTML
 package very uploaded to PyPI.  Yet this is still in some sense the canonical way to install
 packages.  If you for instance use `Rye` today you configure the index by pointing to that URL.
 
-With the use of a **meta server**, one would instead point it to a meta server instead.  So for instance
+With the use of a **meta server**, one would instead point it to a meta server.  So for instance
 the meta server for `pypi.org` could be hosted at a different URL, say `https://meta.pypi.org/`.
 That meta server URL fully replaces the existing index URL.  Each meta server is supposed to target
 a single index only.  A package manager _only_ interfaces with the meta server and it's the meta
diff --git a/rye/src/cli/mod.rs b/rye/src/cli/mod.rs
index 9c66b5bded..c34a163de3 100644
--- a/rye/src/cli/mod.rs
+++ b/rye/src/cli/mod.rs
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ pub fn execute() -> Result<(), Error> {
         Command::List(cmd) => list::execute(cmd),
         Command::Shell(..) => {
             bail!(
-                "unknown command. The shell command was removed. Activate the virtualenv instead with '{}' instead.",
+                "unknown command. The shell command was removed. Activate the virtualenv with '{}' instead.",
                 if cfg!(windows) {
                     ".venv\\Scripts\\activate"
                 } else {