diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/queries.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/queries.sgml
index 93323463faf7f7574495d210beee49f5da684cc4..9ba277380301b566cd58e6d403e8e3fd4d25c277 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/queries.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/queries.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/queries.sgml,v 1.33 2005/01/22 22:56:36 momjian Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/queries.sgml,v 1.34 2005/05/08 03:08:05 momjian Exp $ -->
 
 <chapter id="queries">
  <title>Queries</title>
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ SELECT <replaceable>select_list</replaceable> FROM <replaceable>table_expression
   </para>
 
   <para>
-   The simplest kind of query has the form
+   A simple kind of query has the form
 <programlisting>
 SELECT * FROM table1;
 </programlisting>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/select.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/select.sgml
index 9b8b90bb167ac2746c2eafe16ea812fe0dfca117..75765a0dab818b6c6666749e956e0f34b83b5ec3 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/select.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/select.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/select.sgml,v 1.86 2005/04/28 21:47:10 tgl Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/select.sgml,v 1.87 2005/05/08 03:08:05 momjian Exp $
 PostgreSQL documentation
 -->
 
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ where <replaceable class="parameter">from_item</replaceable> can be one of:
   <title>Description</title>
 
   <para>
-   <command>SELECT</command> retrieves rows from one or more tables.
+   <command>SELECT</command> retrieves rows from zero or more tables.
    The general processing of <command>SELECT</command> is as follows:
 
    <orderedlist>