1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/usr.bin/lex/lex.1 b/usr.bin/lex/lex.1
index 895002f4c448..4475e202b338 100644
--- a/usr.bin/lex/lex.1
+++ b/usr.bin/lex/lex.1
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ manual includes both tutorial and reference sections:
 .I flex
 is a tool for generating
 .I scanners:
-programs which recognized lexical patterns in text.
+programs which recognize lexical patterns in text.
 .I flex
 reads
 the given input files, or its standard input if no file names are given,
@@ -2368,7 +2368,7 @@ is a synonym for
 .B \-7
 instructs
 .I flex
-to generate a 7-bit scanner, i.e., one which can only recognized 7-bit
+to generate a 7-bit scanner, i.e., one which can only recognize 7-bit
 characters in its input.  The advantage of using
 .B \-7
 is that the scanner's tables can be up to half the size of those generated