diff --git a/scribble-doc/scribblings/scribble/how-to-paper.scrbl b/scribble-doc/scribblings/scribble/how-to-paper.scrbl
index 0704c3b1..2f884aca 100644
--- a/scribble-doc/scribblings/scribble/how-to-paper.scrbl
+++ b/scribble-doc/scribblings/scribble/how-to-paper.scrbl
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ which renders as
 
 The @racket[tabular] function takes a list of lists to organize into a
 two-dimensional table. By default, no spacing is added between columns,
-so supply a @racket[#:sep] argument to acts as a column separator.
+so supply a @racket[#:sep] argument to act as a column separator.
 For example,
 
    @sample|{