diff --git a/src/share/classes/java/io/InputStream.java b/src/share/classes/java/io/InputStream.java
index 12da2bc93979c40c447b838d2c648ff2a984eb2b..86922fe8b105fd516b465580ba0a95b09379e3cd 100644
--- a/src/share/classes/java/io/InputStream.java
+++ b/src/share/classes/java/io/InputStream.java
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ public abstract class InputStream implements Closeable {
      *
      * @param      b   the buffer into which the data is read.
      * @return     the total number of bytes read into the buffer, or
-     *             <code>-1</code> is there is no more data because the end of
+     *             <code>-1</code> if there is no more data because the end of
      *             the stream has been reached.
      * @exception  IOException  If the first byte cannot be read for any reason
      * other than the end of the file, if the input stream has been closed, or