diff --git a/pep-0654.rst b/pep-0654.rst
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--- a/pep-0654.rst
+++ b/pep-0654.rst
@@ -666,7 +666,7 @@ Raising New Exceptions
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 In the previous examples the explicit raises were of the exceptions that
-were caught, so for completion we show a new exception being raise, with
+were caught, so for completion we show a new exception being raised, with
 chaining:
 
 .. code-block::