diff --git a/libavutil/pixdesc.h b/libavutil/pixdesc.h
index 1fa571f4053fdded482cb0b3a344333b8c871e7b..4b003fd55244ff40e1e0a11a0a08308b6782edf1 100644
--- a/libavutil/pixdesc.h
+++ b/libavutil/pixdesc.h
@@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ typedef struct AVPixFmtDescriptor{
 extern const AVPixFmtDescriptor av_pix_fmt_descriptors[];
 
 /**
- * Reads a line from an image, and writes to dst the values of the
- * pixel format component c.
+ * Reads a line from an image, and writes the values of the
+ * pixel format component c to dst.
  *
  * @param data the array containing the pointers to the planes of the image
  * @param linesizes the array containing the linesizes of the image
@@ -106,8 +106,8 @@ extern const AVPixFmtDescriptor av_pix_fmt_descriptors[];
  * @param w the width of the line to read, that is the number of
  * values to write to dst
  * @param read_pal_component if not zero and the format is a paletted
- * format writes to dst the values corresponding to the palette
- * component c in data[1], rather than the palette indexes in
+ * format writes the values corresponding to the palette
+ * component c in data[1] to dst, rather than the palette indexes in
  * data[0]. The behavior is undefined if the format is not paletted.
  */
 static inline void read_line(uint16_t *dst, const uint8_t *data[4], const int linesize[4],