diff --git a/BREAKING_CHANGES.md b/BREAKING_CHANGES.md
index 055796559f..b698be8c0c 100644
--- a/BREAKING_CHANGES.md
+++ b/BREAKING_CHANGES.md
@@ -209,8 +209,8 @@ This change only affects those using Ruff under its default rule set. Users that
 
 ### Remove support for emoji identifiers ([#7212](https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/7212))
 
-Previously, Ruff supported the non-standard compliant emoji identifiers e.g. `📦 = 1`.
-We decided to remove this non-standard language extension, and Ruff now reports syntax errors for emoji identifiers in your code, the same as CPython.
+Previously, Ruff supported non-standards-compliant emoji identifiers such as `📦 = 1`.
+We decided to remove this non-standard language extension. Ruff now reports syntax errors for invalid emoji identifiers in your code, the same as CPython.
 
 ### Improved GitLab fingerprints ([#7203](https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/7203))
 
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index e59371c156..15f961e7d8 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -526,7 +526,7 @@ cargo benchmark
 #### Benchmark-driven Development
 
 Ruff uses [Criterion.rs](https://bheisler.github.io/criterion.rs/book/) for benchmarks. You can use
-`--save-baseline=<name>` to store an initial baseline benchmark (e.g. on `main`) and then use
+`--save-baseline=<name>` to store an initial baseline benchmark (e.g., on `main`) and then use
 `--benchmark=<name>` to compare against that benchmark. Criterion will print a message telling you
 if the benchmark improved/regressed compared to that baseline.
 
@@ -678,9 +678,9 @@ utils with it:
 23 Newline 24
 ```
 
-- `cargo dev print-cst <file>`: Print the CST of a python file using
+- `cargo dev print-cst <file>`: Print the CST of a Python file using
     [LibCST](https://github.com/Instagram/LibCST), which is used in addition to the RustPython parser
-    in Ruff. E.g. for `if True: pass # comment` everything including the whitespace is represented:
+    in Ruff. For example, for `if True: pass # comment`, everything, including the whitespace, is represented:
 
 ```text
 Module {
diff --git a/docs/faq.md b/docs/faq.md
index 4224d1ebb0..d2dde46530 100644
--- a/docs/faq.md
+++ b/docs/faq.md
@@ -639,7 +639,7 @@ making changes to code, even for seemingly trivial fixes. If a "safe" fix breaks
 Ruff's color output is powered by the [`colored`](https://crates.io/crates/colored) crate, which
 attempts to automatically detect whether the output stream supports color. However, you can force
 colors off by setting the `NO_COLOR` environment variable to any value (e.g., `NO_COLOR=1`), or
-force colors on by setting `FORCE_COLOR` to any non-empty value (e.g. `FORCE_COLOR=1`).
+force colors on by setting `FORCE_COLOR` to any non-empty value (e.g., `FORCE_COLOR=1`).
 
 [`colored`](https://crates.io/crates/colored) also supports the `CLICOLOR` and `CLICOLOR_FORCE`
 environment variables (see the [spec](https://bixense.com/clicolors/)).
diff --git a/docs/preview.md b/docs/preview.md
index 66a9877b0a..56590c7578 100644
--- a/docs/preview.md
+++ b/docs/preview.md
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ setting in your configuration file:
     ```
 
 In our previous example, `--select` with `ALL` `HYP`, `HYP0`, or `HYP00` would not enable `HYP001`. Each preview
-rule will need to be selected with its exact code, e.g. `--select ALL,HYP001`.
+rule will need to be selected with its exact code: for example, `--select ALL,HYP001`.
 
 If preview mode is not enabled, this setting has no effect.