diff --git a/reference/dom/domxpath/query.xml b/reference/dom/domxpath/query.xml
index 2b1233fd13..aeee5dea2e 100644
--- a/reference/dom/domxpath/query.xml
+++ b/reference/dom/domxpath/query.xml
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ $doc->load('book.xml');
 
 $xpath = new DOMXPath($doc);
 
-// We starts from the root element
+// We start from the root element
 $query = '//book/chapter/para/informaltable/tgroup/tbody/row/entry[. = "en"]';
 
 $entries = $xpath->query($query);