diff --git a/man2/sync.2 b/man2/sync.2
index 9d7a90872..0fa39ae71 100644
--- a/man2/sync.2
+++ b/man2/sync.2
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ metadata related to the filesystem itself.
 Disk space was exhausted while synchronizing.
 .TP
 .BR ENOSPC ", " EDQUOT
-Data was written to a files on NFS or another filesystem which does not
+Data was written to a file on NFS or another filesystem which does not
 allocate space at the time of a
 .BR write (2)
 system call, and some previous write failed due to insufficient