diff --git a/man7/sched.7 b/man7/sched.7
index e1fec42d2..70aae11fb 100644
--- a/man7/sched.7
+++ b/man7/sched.7
@@ -564,7 +564,7 @@ Since version 2.6.25, Linux also provides two
 .I /proc
 files that can be used to reserve a certain amount of CPU time
 to be used by non-real-time processes.
-Reserving some CPU time in this fashion allows some CPU time to be
+Reserving CPU time in this fashion allows some CPU time to be
 allocated to (say) a root shell that can be used to kill a runaway process.
 Both of these files specify time values in microseconds:
 .TP