Grammar and clarity improvements.

docs/source/user/configuration.rst

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Remember that you want to specify certain options without writing
 Configuration Locations
 =======================
 
-Presently, Flake8 supports storing its configuration in the following places:
+Flake8 supports storing its configuration in the following places:
 
 - Your top-level user directory
 
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ This would allow us to add comments for why we're excluding items, e.g.,
     :mod:`configparser` backport from PyPI. That backport enables us to
     support this behaviour on all supported versions of Python.
 
-    Please do **not** open issues about this dependency.
+    Please do **not** open issues about this dependency to Flake8.
 
 .. note::
 

docs/source/user/ignoring-errors.rst

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 By default, |Flake8| has a list of error codes that it ignores. The list used
 by a version of |Flake8| may be different than the list used by a different
-version. To determine the default list, using :option:`flake8 --help` will
+version. To see the default list, :option:`flake8 --help` will
 show the output with the current default list.
 
 
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ specific error code on a specific line. Let's take for example a line like
     example = lambda: 'example'
 
 Sometimes we genuinely need something this simple. We could instead define
-a function like we normally would but in some contexts that distracts from
+a function like we normally would. Note, in some contexts this distracts from
 what is actually happening. In those cases, we can also do:
 
 .. code-block:: python

docs/source/user/index.rst

@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@
  Using Flake8
 ==============
 
-Flake8 can be used in many ways:
+Flake8 can be used in many ways. A few:
 
-- invoking it on the command-line
+- invoked on the command-line
 
-- invoking it via Python
+- invoked via Python
 
-- having it called by Git or Mercurial on or around committing
+- called by Git or Mercurial on or around committing
 
 This guide will cover all of these and the nuances for using Flake8.
 

docs/source/user/options.rst

@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@
     - pylint
 
     Other formatters can be installed. Refer to their documentation for the
-    name to use to select them. Further, users can specify they're own format
+    name to use to select them. Further, users can specify their own format
     string. The variables available are:
 
     - code