diff --git a/man2/clock_getres.2 b/man2/clock_getres.2
index 799dfeed7..925d8a496 100644
--- a/man2/clock_getres.2
+++ b/man2/clock_getres.2
@@ -216,12 +216,12 @@ See
 for further details.
 .TP
 .BR CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID " (since Linux 2.6.12)"
-This is a clock that measure CPU time consumed by this process
+This is a clock that measures CPU time consumed by this process
 (i.e., CPU time consumed by all threads in the process).
 On Linux, this clock is not settable.
 .TP
 .BR CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID " (since Linux 2.6.12)"
-This is a clock that measure CPU time consumed by this thread.
+This is a clock that measures CPU time consumed by this thread.
 On Linux, this clock is not settable.
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 .BR clock_gettime (),