diff --git a/src/functional/optics.md b/src/functional/optics.md
index 31ca20d8..3ecc80fe 100644
--- a/src/functional/optics.md
+++ b/src/functional/optics.md
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ fn main() {
 
 That seems quite logical. However, there are two problems with this.
 
-First, `to_string` is to a very good way to explain "this is JSON." Every type
+First, `to_string` does not indicate to API users, "this is JSON." Every type
 would need to agree on a JSON representation, and many of the types in the Rust
 standard library already don't. Using this is a poor fit. This can easily be
 resolved with our own trait.
@@ -350,9 +350,9 @@ Thus we have the Serde API:
 1. Each type to be serialized implements `Deserialize` or `Serialize`,
    equivalent to the `Serde` class
 1. They get a type (well two, one for each direction) implementing the `Visitor`
-   trait, which are usually (but not always) through macro-generated code. This
-   contains the logic to construct or destruct between the data type and the
-   format of the Serde data model.
+   trait, which are usually (but not always) is done through code generated by
+   a derive macro. This contains the logic to construct or destruct between the
+   data type and the format of the Serde data model.
 1. The type implementing the `Deserializer` trait handles all details specific
    to the format, being "driven by" the `Visitor`.