diff --git a/man7/sched.7 b/man7/sched.7
index 6f8eb731d..1a1936fa3 100644
--- a/man7/sched.7
+++ b/man7/sched.7
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Each thread has an associated scheduling policy and a \fIstatic\fP
 scheduling priority, \fIsched_priority\fP; these are the settings
 that are modified by
 .BR sched_setscheduler ().
-The scheduler makes it decisions based on knowledge of the scheduling
+The scheduler makes its decisions based on knowledge of the scheduling
 policy and static priority of all threads on the system.
 
 For threads scheduled under one of the normal scheduling policies