@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ Discouraged
 These methods should be used together with care, calling ``set_ticks``
 to specify the desired tick locations **before** calling ``set_ticklabels`` to
 specify a matching series of labels.  Calling ``set_ticks`` makes a
-`~matplotlib.ticker.FixedLocator`; it's list of locations is then used by
+`~matplotlib.ticker.FixedLocator`; its list of locations is then used by
 ``set_ticklabels`` to make an appropriate
 `~matplotlib.ticker.FuncFormatter`.
 
 
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ supported Python bindings per version -- `PyQt5
 <https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Docs/PyQt6/>`_ and `PySide6
 <https://doc.qt.io/qtforpython/contents.html>`_ for Qt6 [#]_.  Matplotlib's
 qtagg and qtcairo backends (``matplotlib.backends.backend_qtagg`` and
-``matplotlib.backend.backend_qtcairo``) support all these bindings, with common
+``matplotlib.backends.backend_qtcairo``) support all these bindings, with common
 parts factored out in the ``matplotlib.backends.backend_qt`` module.
 
 At runtime, these backends select the actual binding used as follows: