diff --git a/share/man/man9/EVENTHANDLER.9 b/share/man/man9/EVENTHANDLER.9
index 4b847addd8b7..ed83018d763c 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/EVENTHANDLER.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/EVENTHANDLER.9
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ The name of the event handler list.
 A pointer to a callback function.
 Argument
 .Fa arg
-is a passed to the callback function
+is passed to the callback function
 .Fa func
 as its first argument when it is invoked.
 .It Fa priority