diff --git a/man2/posix_fadvise.2 b/man2/posix_fadvise.2
index 467a278db..f2ecf5b1e 100644
--- a/man2/posix_fadvise.2
+++ b/man2/posix_fadvise.2
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ discarded instead.
 
 Requests to discard partial pages are ignored.
 It is preferable to preserve needed data than discard unneeded data.
-If the application requires that data be considered for discarding then
+If the application requires that data be considered for discarding, then
 .I offset
 and
 .I len