diff --git a/man1/time.1 b/man1/time.1
index f274aa9d8..f26a1d53c 100644
--- a/man1/time.1
+++ b/man1/time.1
@@ -125,8 +125,8 @@ sys %S
 .\"
 .SS The format string
 The format is interpreted in the usual printf-like way.
-Ordinary characters are directly copied, tab, newline
-and backslash are escaped using \et, \en and \e\e,
+Ordinary characters are directly copied, tab, newline,
+and backslash are escaped using \et, \en, and \e\e,
 a percent sign is represented by %%, and otherwise %
 indicates a conversion.
 The program
diff --git a/man2/ioctl_console.2 b/man2/ioctl_console.2
index 68d6815f6..231b598e3 100644
--- a/man2/ioctl_console.2
+++ b/man2/ioctl_console.2
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ intensity.
 The default colors are, in order: black, dark red, dark
 green, brown, dark blue, dark purple, dark cyan, light grey, dark
 grey, bright red, bright green, yellow, bright blue, bright purple,
-bright cyan and white.
+bright cyan, and white.
 (Since Linux 1.3.3.)
 .TP
 .B GIO_FONT
diff --git a/man3/daemon.3 b/man3/daemon.3
index c78c5c37d..4db304079 100644
--- a/man3/daemon.3
+++ b/man3/daemon.3
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ If
 .I noclose
 is zero,
 .BR daemon ()
-redirects standard input, standard output and standard error
+redirects standard input, standard output, and standard error
 to
 .IR /dev/null ;
 otherwise, no changes are made to these file descriptors.
diff --git a/man3/updwtmp.3 b/man3/updwtmp.3
index 1605a3f60..e58840a56 100644
--- a/man3/updwtmp.3
+++ b/man3/updwtmp.3
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ to the wtmp file.
 .BR logwtmp ()
 constructs a utmp structure using
 .IR line ", " name ", " host ,
-current time and current process ID.
+current time, and current process ID.
 Then it calls
 .BR updwtmp ()
 to append the structure to the wtmp file.
diff --git a/man4/mouse.4 b/man4/mouse.4
index 351df7f07..7faa328b0 100644
--- a/man4/mouse.4
+++ b/man4/mouse.4
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ as 0,0,0,0x20 when no other buttons are down.
 .SS Mousesystems protocol
 The
 .B Mousesystems
-protocol uses 1 start bit, 8 data bits, no parity
+protocol uses 1 start bit, 8 data bits, no parity,
 and two stop bits at the speed of 1200 bits/sec.
 Data is sent to RxD in
 5-byte packets.
diff --git a/man4/smartpqi.4 b/man4/smartpqi.4
index 3f99cea7c..90ca67e0f 100644
--- a/man4/smartpqi.4
+++ b/man4/smartpqi.4
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ attribute.
 .TP
 .B CCISS_GETPCIINFO
 This operation returns the PCI domain, bus,
-device and function and "board ID" (PCI subsystem ID).
+device, and function and "board ID" (PCI subsystem ID).
 .TP
 .B CCISS_GETDRIVVER
 This operation returns the driver version in four bytes, encoded as: