diff --git a/Documentation/kobject.txt b/Documentation/kobject.txt
index f87241dfed8765a98c1eaf6b6d3acbaa56d8f25f..1be59a3a521c87fd6107fcdf64f7c7ac525d1512 100644
--- a/Documentation/kobject.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kobject.txt
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ This should be done only after any attributes or children of the kobject
 have been initialized properly, as userspace will instantly start to look
 for them when this call happens.
 
-When the kobject is removed from the kernel (details on how to do that is
+When the kobject is removed from the kernel (details on how to do that are
 below), the uevent for KOBJ_REMOVE will be automatically created by the
 kobject core, so the caller does not have to worry about doing that by
 hand.