4 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/getcap.3 b/lib/libc/gen/getcap.3
index 6858b0ee1d92..9cba02717cdc 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/getcap.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/getcap.3
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ does not exist
 .Pp
 Names consist of one or more characters.
 Names may contain any character
-except `:', but it's usually best to restrict them to the printable
+except `:', but it is usually best to restrict them to the printable
 characters and avoid use of graphics like `#', `=', `%', `@', etc.
 Types
 are single characters used to separate capability names from their
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/stringlist.3 b/lib/libc/gen/stringlist.3
index d75407c34fac..30dd299a7a44 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/stringlist.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/stringlist.3
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ Find
 .Fa item
 in
 .Fa sl ,
-returning NULL if it's not found.
+returning NULL if it is not found.
 .El
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr free 3 ,
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdtime/ctime.3 b/lib/libc/stdtime/ctime.3
index 7b9830452b0a..ec480eca3efc 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdtime/ctime.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdtime/ctime.3
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ element of
 .Fa tzname
 to a pointer to an
 .Tn ASCII
-string that's the time zone abbreviation to be
+string that is the time zone abbreviation to be
 used with
 .Fn localtime Ns 's
 return value.
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/shmctl.2 b/lib/libc/sys/shmctl.2
index d73c516e2bde..90c61c9a1946 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/shmctl.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/shmctl.2
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ The
 structure is defined as follows:
 .\"
 .\" I fiddled with the spaces a bit to make it fit well when viewed
-.\" with nroff, but otherwise it's straight from sys/shm.h
+.\" with nroff, but otherwise it is straight from sys/shm.h
 .\"
 .Bd -literal
 struct shmid_ds {