diff --git a/doc/contributing/maintaining/maintaining-dependencies.md b/doc/contributing/maintaining/maintaining-dependencies.md
index 3b85745e6a5d..e86fe05e924f 100644
--- a/doc/contributing/maintaining/maintaining-dependencies.md
+++ b/doc/contributing/maintaining/maintaining-dependencies.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ and are built together with the code under the `src` and `lib`
 directories to create the Node.js binaries.
 
 All dependencies are located within the `deps` directory.
-This a list of all the dependencies:
+This is a list of all the dependencies:
 
 * [acorn][]
 * [ada][]