diff --git a/docs/library/select.rst b/docs/library/select.rst
index c24f010e6ba93d5a78c6c45a82116c9ed04b9635..8dcd4080f10864437adb9310d606c5f79ef369e9 100644
--- a/docs/library/select.rst
+++ b/docs/library/select.rst
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ Methods
    list of (``obj``, ``event``, ...) tuples, ``event`` element specifies
    which events happened with a stream and is a combination of `select.POLL*`
    constants described above. There may be other elements in tuple, depending
-   on platform and version, so don't assume that its size is 2. In case of
+   on a platform and version, so don't assume that its size is 2. In case of
    timeout, an empty list is returned.
 
    Timeout is in milliseconds.