diff --git a/man2/mmap.2 b/man2/mmap.2
index 3fa59b0e0..88a16e3e8 100644
--- a/man2/mmap.2
+++ b/man2/mmap.2
@@ -764,7 +764,7 @@ making it easy for a multithreaded process to corrupt its own address space.
 .PP
 For example, suppose that thread A looks through
 .I /proc/<pid>/maps
-and in order to locate an unused address range that it can map using
+in order to locate an unused address range that it can map using
 .BR MAP_FIXED ,
 while thread B simultaneously acquires part or all of that same
 address range.