diff --git a/lib/gears/shape.lua b/lib/gears/shape.lua
index 27fb1893f..1c31e741e 100644
--- a/lib/gears/shape.lua
+++ b/lib/gears/shape.lua
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
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 --- Module dedicated to gather common shape painters.
 --
--- It add the concept of "shape" to Awesome. A shape can be applied to a
+-- It adds the concept of "shape" to Awesome. A shape can be applied to a
 -- background, a margin, a mask or a drawable shape bounding.
 --
 -- The functions exposed by this module always take a cairo context as first