diff --git a/man2/open.2 b/man2/open.2
index 6d1a3b0a4..15d92e250 100644
--- a/man2/open.2
+++ b/man2/open.2
@@ -158,10 +158,10 @@ for further details.
 .TP
 .BR O_CLOEXEC " (Since Linux 2.6.23)"
 Enable the close-on-exec flag for the new file descriptor.
-Specifying this flag permits a program to avoid an additional
+Specifying this flag permits a program to avoid additional
 .BR fcntl (2)
 .B F_SETFD
-operation to set the
+operations to set the
 .B FD_CLOEXEC
 flag.
 Additionally,