diff --git a/docs/user-guide/connecting-applications.md b/docs/user-guide/connecting-applications.md
index 638fae40a50..d809c4a922c 100644
--- a/docs/user-guide/connecting-applications.md
+++ b/docs/user-guide/connecting-applications.md
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ Lets test this from a pod (the same secret is being reused for simplicity, the p
 
 ```console
 $ cat curlpod.yaml
-vapiVersion: v1
+apiVersion: v1
 kind: ReplicationController
 metadata:
   name: curlrc
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ $ curl https://104.197.63.17:30645 -k
 Lets now recreate the Service to use a cloud load balancer, just change the `Type` of Service in the nginx-app.yaml from `NodePort` to `LoadBalancer`:
 
 ```console
-$ kubectl delete rc, svc -l app=nginx
+$ kubectl delete rc,svc -l app=nginx
 $ kubectl create -f ./nginx-app.yaml
 $ kubectl get svc nginxsvc
 NAME      CLUSTER_IP       EXTERNAL_IP       PORT(S)                SELECTOR     AGE