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 **🧐 Evaluation:**
 
-[BETA] Generative models are notoriously hard to evaluate with traditional metrics. One new way of evaluating them is using language models themselves to do the evaluation. LangChain provides some prompts/chains for assisting in this.
+[BETA] Generative models are notoriously hard to evaluate with traditional metrics. One new way of evaluating them is by using language models themselves to do the evaluation. LangChain provides some prompts/chains for assisting in this.
 
 For more information on these concepts, please see our [full documentation](https://python.langchain.com).
 
diff --git a/docs/docs/modules/data_connection/document_loaders/file_directory.mdx b/docs/docs/modules/data_connection/document_loaders/file_directory.mdx
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@@ -127,9 +127,9 @@ len(docs)
 
 ## Auto-detect file encodings with TextLoader
 
-In this example we will see some strategies that can be useful when loading a big list of arbitrary files from a directory using the `TextLoader` class.
+In this example we will see some strategies that can be useful when loading a large list of arbitrary files from a directory using the `TextLoader` class.
 
-First to illustrate the problem, let's try to load multiple text with arbitrary encodings.
+First to illustrate the problem, let's try to load multiple texts with arbitrary encodings.
 
 
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