diff --git a/doc/arch-design-rst/source/network-focus-prescriptive-examples.rst b/doc/arch-design-rst/source/network-focus-prescriptive-examples.rst
index b494c61479..9834c2f1c3 100644
--- a/doc/arch-design-rst/source/network-focus-prescriptive-examples.rst
+++ b/doc/arch-design-rst/source/network-focus-prescriptive-examples.rst
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Prescriptive examples
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-An organization design a large-scale web application with cloud
+An organization designs a large-scale web application with cloud
 principles in mind. The application scales horizontally in a bursting
 fashion and generates a high instance count. The application requires an
 SSL connection to secure data and must not lose connection state to
diff --git a/doc/arch-design/network_focus/section_prescriptive_examples_network_focus.xml b/doc/arch-design/network_focus/section_prescriptive_examples_network_focus.xml
index 86ed08b415..4d22f4f9ce 100644
--- a/doc/arch-design/network_focus/section_prescriptive_examples_network_focus.xml
+++ b/doc/arch-design/network_focus/section_prescriptive_examples_network_focus.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
   xml:id="prescriptive-example-large-scale-web-app">
     <?dbhtml stop-chunking?>
     <title>Prescriptive examples</title>
-    <para>An organization design a large-scale web application with cloud
+    <para>An organization designs a large-scale web application with cloud
         principles in mind. The application scales
         horizontally in a bursting fashion and generates a high
         instance count. The application requires an SSL connection to