diff --git a/aio/content/examples/http/src/app/config/config.service.ts b/aio/content/examples/http/src/app/config/config.service.ts
index 4dd71c69ab..e41c24f39c 100644
--- a/aio/content/examples/http/src/app/config/config.service.ts
+++ b/aio/content/examples/http/src/app/config/config.service.ts
@@ -76,15 +76,15 @@ export class ConfigService {
       console.error('An error occurred:', error.error.message);
     } else {
       // The backend returned an unsuccessful response code.
-      // The response body may contain clues as to what went wrong,
+      // The response body may contain clues as to what went wrong.
       console.error(
         `Backend returned code ${error.status}, ` +
         `body was: ${error.error}`);
     }
-    // return an observable with a user-facing error message
+    // Return an observable with a user-facing error message.
     return throwError(
       'Something bad happened; please try again later.');
-  };
+  }
   // #enddocregion handleError
 
   makeIntentionalError() {
diff --git a/aio/content/guide/http.md b/aio/content/guide/http.md
index 410e0acd40..3605a9d871 100644
--- a/aio/content/guide/http.md
+++ b/aio/content/guide/http.md
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ searchHeroes(term: string): Observable {
   return this.http.jsonp(heroesUrl, 'callback').pipe(
       catchError(this.handleError('searchHeroes', [])) // then handle the error
     );
-};
+}
 ```
 
 This request passes the `heroesURL` as the first parameter and the callback function name as the second parameter.