small typo/word choice/punctuation fixes on reading entire document (#368)

Author: andrewschultz

docs/docs/addition_subtraction.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Addition and Subtraction
 
-To easily adding and subtracting time, you can use the `add()` and `subtract()`
+To easily add and subtract time, you can use the `add()` and `subtract()`
 methods.
 Each method returns a new `DateTime` instance.
 

docs/docs/fluent_helpers.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # Fluent helpers
 
-Pendulum provides helpers that returns a new instance with some attributes
+Pendulum provides helpers that return a new instance with some attributes
 modified compared to the original instance.
-However, none of these helpers, with the exception of explicitely setting the
+However, none of these helpers, with the exception of explicitly setting the
 timezone, will change the timezone of the instance. Specifically,
 setting the timestamp will not set the corresponding timezone to UTC.
 
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ You can also modify the timezone.
 >>> dt.set(tz='Europe/London')
 ```
 
-Setting the timezone just modify the timezone information without
-making any conversion while `in_timezone()` (or `in_tz()`)
+Setting the timezone just modifies the timezone information without
+making any conversion, while `in_timezone()` (or `in_tz()`)
 converts the time in the appropriate timezone.
 
 ```python

docs/docs/instantiation.md

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ True
 
 `datetime()` sets the time to `00:00:00` if it's not specified,
 and the timezone (the `tz` keyword argument) to `UTC`.
-It otherwise can be a `Timezone` instance or simply a string timezone value.
+Otherwise it can be a `Timezone` instance or simply a string timezone value.
 
 ```python
 >>> import pendulum
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ and each has their time value set to `00:00:00`.
 ```
 
 Pendulum enforces timezone aware datetimes, and using them is the preferred and recommended way
-of using the library, however is you really need a **naive** `DateTime` object, the `naive()` helper
+of using the library. However, if you really need a **naive** `DateTime` object, the `naive()` helper
 is there for you.
 
 ```python

docs/docs/introduction.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ It provides classes that are drop-in replacements for the native ones (they inhe
 
 Special care has been taken to ensure timezones are handled correctly,
 and are based on the underlying `tzinfo` implementation.
-For example all comparisons are done in `UTC` or in the timezone of the datetime being used.
+For example, all comparisons are done in `UTC` or in the timezone of the datetime being used.
 
 ```python
 >>> import pendulum

docs/docs/limitations.md

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Here is a list (non-exhaustive) of the reported cases with a possible solution,
     pymysql.converters.conversions[pendulum.DateTime] = pymysql.converters.escape_datetime
     ```
 
-* `django` will use the `isoformat()` method to store datetimes in the database. However since `pendulum` is always timezone aware the offset information will always be returned by `isoformat()` raising an error, at least for MySQL databases. To work around it you can either create your own `DateTimeField` or use the previous workaround for `MySQLdb`:
+* `django` will use the `isoformat()` method to store datetimes in the database. However, since `pendulum` is always timezone aware, the offset information will always be returned by `isoformat()` raising an error, at least for MySQL databases. To work around it, you can either create your own `DateTimeField` or use the previous workaround for `MySQLdb`:
 
     ```python
     import pendulum

docs/docs/localization.md

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ by using `pendulum.set_locale()`.
 ```
 
 However, you might not want to set the locale globally. The `diff_for_humans()`
-method accept a `locale` keyword argument to use a locale for a specific call.
+method accepts a `locale` keyword argument to use a locale for a specific call.
 
 ```python
 >>> pendulum.set_locale('de')

docs/docs/modifiers.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Modifiers
 
-These group of methods perform helpful modifications to a copy of the current instance.
+This group of methods performs helpful modifications to a copy of the current instance.
 You'll notice that the `start_of()`, `next()` and `previous()` methods
 set the time to `00:00:00` and the `end_of()` methods set the time to `23:59:59.999999`.
 

docs/docs/parsing.md

@@ -18,10 +18,10 @@ The library natively supports the RFC 3339 format, most ISO 8601 formats and som
 >>> dt = pendulum.parse('1975-05-21 22:00:00')
 ```
 
-If you pass a non-standard or more complicated string, it will raise an exception so it is advised to
+If you pass a non-standard or more complicated string, it will raise an exception, so it is advised to
 use the `from_format()` helper instead.
 
-However, if you want the library to fallback on the [dateutil](https://dateutil.readthedocs.io) parser,
+However, if you want the library to fall back on the [dateutil](https://dateutil.readthedocs.io) parser,
 you have to pass `strict=False`.
 
 ```python

docs/docs/period.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Period
 
-When you subtract a `DateTime` instance to another, or use the `diff()` method, it will return a `Period` instance.
+When you subtract a `DateTime` instance from another, or use the `diff()` method, it will return a `Period` instance.
 It inherits from the [Duration](#duration) class with the added benefit that it is aware of the
 instances that generated it, so that it can give access to more methods and properties:
 
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ transitions that might have occurred and adjust accordingly. Let's take an examp
 
 !!!warning
 
-    Due to its nature (fixed duration between two datetimes), most arithmetic operations will
+    Due to their nature (fixed duration between two datetimes), most arithmetic operations will
     return a `Duration` instead of a `Period`.
 
     ```python
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ You can also make an inverted period:
 ```
 
 If you have inverted dates but want to make sure that the period is positive,
-you set the `absolute` keyword argument to `True`:
+you should set the `absolute` keyword argument to `True`:
 
 ```python
 >>> period = pendulum.period(end, start, absolute=True)

docs/docs/string_formatting.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # String formatting
 
-The `__str__` magic method is defined which allows `DateTime` instances to be printed
+The `__str__` magic method is defined to allow `DateTime` instances to be printed
 as a pretty date string when used in a string context.
 
 The default string representation is the same as the one returned by the `isoformat()` method.