diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5
index 222fd6b1b..3c98f4269 100644
--- a/man5/proc.5
+++ b/man5/proc.5
@@ -2737,7 +2737,7 @@ The "rem_address" is the remote address and port number pair
 The "tx_queue" and "rx_queue" are the
 outgoing and incoming data queue in terms of kernel memory usage.
 The "tr", "tm\->when", and "rexmits" fields hold internal information of
-the kernel socket state and are only useful for debugging.
+the kernel socket state and are useful only for debugging.
 The "uid"
 field holds the effective UID of the creator of the socket.
 .TP
@@ -2846,7 +2846,7 @@ monotonically-increasing sequence number.
 This shows the ID of the most recent packet queued.
 .RE
 .IP
-The last number only exists for compatibility reasons and is always 1.
+The last number exists only for compatibility reasons and is always 1.
 .TP
 .I /proc/partitions
 Contains the major and minor numbers of each partition as well as the number