diff --git a/core/modules/image/image.module b/core/modules/image/image.module
index 91a3d2390d4..e5c2b9b7466 100644
--- a/core/modules/image/image.module
+++ b/core/modules/image/image.module
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ function image_form_system_file_system_settings_alter(&$form, &$form_state) {
 }
 
 /**
- * Submit handler for the file system settings form.
+ * Form submission handler for system_file_system_settings().
  *
  * Adds a menu rebuild after the public file path has been changed, so that the
  * menu router item depending on that file path will be regenerated.
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ function image_field_update_instance($instance, $prior_instance) {
 }
 
 /**
- * Clear cached versions of a specific file in all styles.
+ * Clears cached versions of a specific file in all styles.
  *
  * @param $path
  *   The Drupal file path to the original image.
@@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ function image_image_style_load($styles) {
 }
 
 /**
- * Get an array of image styles suitable for using as select list options.
+ * Gets an array of image styles suitable for using as select list options.
  *
  * @param $include_empty
  *   If TRUE a <none> option will be inserted in the options array.
@@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ function image_style_options($include_empty = TRUE) {
 }
 
 /**
- * Menu callback; Given a style and image path, generate a derivative.
+ * Page callback: Generates a derivative, given a style and image path.
  *
  * After generating an image, transfer it to the requesting agent.
  *
@@ -745,7 +745,7 @@ function image_style_transform_dimensions($style_name, array &$dimensions) {
 }
 
 /**
- * Flush cached media for a style.
+ * Flushes cached media for a style.
  *
  * @param $style
  *   An image style array.
@@ -771,7 +771,7 @@ function image_style_flush($style) {
 }
 
 /**
- * Return the URL for an image derivative given a style and image path.
+ * Returns the URL for an image derivative given a style and image path.
  *
  * @param $style_name
  *   The name of the style to be used with this image.
@@ -798,7 +798,7 @@ function image_style_url($style_name, $path) {
 }
 
 /**
- * Return the URI of an image when using a style.
+ * Returns the URI of an image when using a style.
  *
  * The path returned by this function may not exist. The default generation
  * method only creates images when they are requested by a user's browser.
@@ -824,7 +824,10 @@ function image_style_path($style_name, $uri) {
 }
 
 /**
- * Pull in image effects exposed by modules implementing hook_image_effect_info().
+ * Returns a set of image effects.
+ *
+ * These image effects are exposed by modules implementing
+ * hook_image_effect_info().
  *
  * @return
  *   An array of image effects to be used when transforming images.
@@ -866,7 +869,7 @@ function image_effect_definitions() {
 }
 
 /**
- * Load the definition for an image effect.
+ * Loads the definition for an image effect.
  *
  * The effect definition is a set of core properties for an image effect, not
  * containing any user-settings. The definition defines various functions to
@@ -893,7 +896,7 @@ function image_effect_definition_load($effect) {
 }
 
 /**
- * Load a single image effect.
+ * Loads a single image effect.
  *
  * @param $ieid
  *   The image effect ID.
@@ -930,7 +933,7 @@ function image_effect_load($ieid, $style_name) {
 }
 
 /**
- * Save an image effect.
+ * Saves an image effect.
  *
  * @param ImageStyle $style
  *   The image style this effect belongs to.
@@ -959,7 +962,7 @@ function image_effect_save($style, &$effect) {
 }
 
 /**
- * Delete an image effect.
+ * Deletes an image effect.
  *
  * @param ImageStyle $style
  *   The image style this effect belongs to.
@@ -973,7 +976,7 @@ function image_effect_delete($style, $effect) {
 }
 
 /**
- * Given an image object and effect, perform the effect on the file.
+ * Applies an image effect to the image object.
  *
  * @param $image
  *   An image object returned by image_load().
@@ -1029,7 +1032,7 @@ function theme_image_style($variables) {
 }
 
 /**
- * Accept a keyword (center, top, left, etc) and return it as a pixel offset.
+ * Accepts a keyword (center, top, left, etc) and returns it as a pixel offset.
  *
  * @param $value
  * @param $current_pixels
diff --git a/core/modules/node/node.module b/core/modules/node/node.module
index eb56876e7b8..e6bc1c65585 100644
--- a/core/modules/node/node.module
+++ b/core/modules/node/node.module
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ function node_title_list($result, $title = NULL) {
 }
 
 /**
- * Decides on the type of marker to be displayed for a given node.
+ * Determines the type of marker to be displayed for a given node.
  *
  * @param $nid
  *   Node ID whose history supplies the "last viewed" timestamp.
@@ -1087,7 +1087,7 @@ function node_is_page(Node $node) {
   return (!empty($page_node) ? $page_node->nid == $node->nid : FALSE);
 }
 
- /**
+/**
  * Implements hook_preprocess_HOOK() for block.tpl.php.
  */
 function node_preprocess_block(&$variables) {
@@ -2139,9 +2139,9 @@ function node_feed($nids = FALSE, $channel = array()) {
   return new Response($output, 200, array('Content-Type' =>  'application/rss+xml; charset=utf-8'));
 }
 
- /**
-  * Generates an array for rendering the given node.
-  *
+/**
+ * Generates an array for rendering the given node.
+ *
  * @param Drupal\node\Node $node
  *   A node entity.
  * @param $view_mode
@@ -2436,8 +2436,8 @@ function node_search_validate($form, &$form_state) {
 /**
  * Implements hook_form_FORM_ID_alter().
  *
- * Alters System module's site information settings form to add a global default
- * setting for number of posts to show on node listing pages.
+ * Alters the System module's site information settings form to add a global
+ * default setting for number of posts to show on node listing pages.
  *
  * @see node_page_default()
  * @see taxonomy_term_page()
@@ -3210,7 +3210,6 @@ function _node_access_rebuild_batch_finished($success, $results, $operations) {
  * @} End of "defgroup node_access".
  */
 
-
 /**
  * @defgroup node_content Hook implementations for user-created content types
  * @{