diff --git a/reference/mysql/functions/mysql-affected-rows.xml b/reference/mysql/functions/mysql-affected-rows.xml
index ccf974fb4e..04d1cab9db 100644
--- a/reference/mysql/functions/mysql-affected-rows.xml
+++ b/reference/mysql/functions/mysql-affected-rows.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.16 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.17 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/mysql.xml, last change in rev 1.2 -->
   <refentry id="function.mysql-affected-rows">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
       were literally affected by the query.
      </para>
      <para>
-      REPLACE statement deletes the record with the same primary key first and
+      The REPLACE statement first deletes the record with the same primary key and
       then inserts the new record. This function returns the number of deleted
       records plus the number of inserted records.
      </para>
diff --git a/reference/var/functions/empty.xml b/reference/var/functions/empty.xml
index 990594d058..ba0711a674 100644
--- a/reference/var/functions/empty.xml
+++ b/reference/var/functions/empty.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.9 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.10 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/var.xml, last change in rev 1.2 -->
   <refentry id="function.empty">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@
      otherwords, <literal>""</literal>, <literal>0</literal>,
      <literal>"0"</literal>, &null;, &false;, <literal>array()</literal>, and
      <literal>var $var;</literal> are all considered empty. In PHP 4 and
-     earlier also objects with empty properties are considered empty while
-     not in PHP 5. &true; is returned if <parameter>var</parameter> is empty.
+     earlier, objects with empty properties are considered empty. This is not
+     the case in PHP 5. &true; is returned if <parameter>var</parameter> is empty.
     </para>
     <para>
      <function>empty</function> is the opposite of