diff --git a/doc/src/Tools.rst b/doc/src/Tools.rst
index e4f2af269a..3e7446545b 100644
--- a/doc/src/Tools.rst
+++ b/doc/src/Tools.rst
@@ -982,7 +982,7 @@ Usage examples
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
 The ``tools/swig`` folder has multiple shell scripts, ``run_<name>_example.sh``
-that will create a small example script and demonstrates how to load
+that will create a small example script and demonstrate how to load
 the wrapper and run LAMMPS through it in the corresponding programming
 language.