diff --git a/examples/aws-asg/README.md b/examples/aws-asg/README.md
index 3dda05a87..fac6917c7 100644
--- a/examples/aws-asg/README.md
+++ b/examples/aws-asg/README.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 This example shows how to launch instances using Auto Scaling Groups.
 
-This creates a security group, launch configuration, auto scaling group and an ELB. The user data for launch configuration installs nginx and it listnes on port 80.
+This creates a security group, launch configuration, auto scaling group and an ELB. The user data for launch configuration installs nginx and it listens on port 80.
 
 The example uses latest Ubuntu AMIs. 
 
@@ -14,15 +14,15 @@ Running the example
 
 For planning phase 
 
-terraform plan  -var 'key_name={your_key_name}}'
+terraform plan -var 'key_name={your_key_name}}'
 
 For apply phase 
 
-terraform apply  -var 'key_name={your_key_name}}'
+terraform apply -var 'key_name={your_key_name}}'
 
-Once the stack is created, wait for few minsutes and test the stack by launching a browser with ELB url. 
+Once the stack is created, wait for few minutes and test the stack by launching a browser with ELB url. 
 
 To remove the stack
 
-terraform apply  -var 'key_name={your_key_name}}'
+ terraform destroy -var 'key_name={your_key_name}}'
 
diff --git a/examples/aws-elb/README.md b/examples/aws-elb/README.md
index 0f7db18cc..a5f39f5d2 100644
--- a/examples/aws-elb/README.md
+++ b/examples/aws-elb/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # ELB with stickiness Example
 
-The example launches a web server, installs nginx, creates an ELB for isnatnce. It also creates security groups for elb/instance 
+The example launches a web server, installs nginx, creates an ELB for instance. It also creates security groups for elb/instance 
 
 To run, configure your AWS provider as described in https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/aws/index.html
 
diff --git a/examples/aws-rds/README.md b/examples/aws-rds/README.md
index dfc8e3746..79e9ebd02 100644
--- a/examples/aws-rds/README.md
+++ b/examples/aws-rds/README.md
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 ## Creating an RDS instance in AWS
 
-This example provides sample configuration for creating a mysql or postgres insatnce. For Oracle/SQL Servers, replace default values with appropriate values, they are not included in sample since the number of options are high.
+This example provides sample configuration for creating a mysql or postgres instance. For Oracle/SQL Servers, replace default values with appropriate values, they are not included in sample since the number of options are high.
 
 The example creates db subnet groups and a VPC security group as inputs to the instance creation
 
 For AWS provider, set up your AWS environment as outlined in https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/aws/index.html
 
-If you need to use existing security groups and subnets, remove the sg.tf and subnets.tf files and replace the corresponidng sections in main.tf under aws_db_instance
+If you need to use existing security groups and subnets, remove the sg.tf and subnets.tf files and replace the corresponding sections in main.tf under aws_db_instance
 
 Pass the password variable through your ENV variable.