diff --git a/usr.bin/indent/indent.1 b/usr.bin/indent/indent.1
index 1521bd2a29cd..8196a4bfe73b 100644
--- a/usr.bin/indent/indent.1
+++ b/usr.bin/indent/indent.1
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ Default:
 .It Fl badp , nbadp
 This is vaguely similar to
 .Fl bad
-, except that it only applies to the first set of declarations
+except that it only applies to the first set of declarations
 in a procedure (just after the first `{') and it causes a blank
 line to be generated even if there are no declarations.
 The default is