diff --git a/man7/unix.7 b/man7/unix.7
index 8e0ebc2e7..0e73b75dd 100644
--- a/man7/unix.7
+++ b/man7/unix.7
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ in the receiving process.
 The kernel constant
 .BR SCM_MAX_FD
 defines a limit on the number of file descriptors in the array.
-Attempting to send an array larger than this limit cause
+Attempting to send an array larger than this limit causes
 .BR sendmsg (2)
 to fail with the error
 .BR EINVAL .