diff --git a/docs/docs/ml.xml b/docs/docs/ml.xml
index aa83745a1..534327ca0 100644
--- a/docs/docs/ml.xml
+++ b/docs/docs/ml.xml
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ Davis E. King.
This is a simple set of functions that makes it easy to turn a kernel
object and a set of samples into a kernel matrix. It takes these two
- things and returns a matrix expression
+ things and returns a matrix expression
that represents the kernel matrix.