diff --git a/pep-3119.txt b/pep-3119.txt
index 414f7bc10..cbccf173c 100644
--- a/pep-3119.txt
+++ b/pep-3119.txt
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ function attribute ``__isabstractmethod__`` to the value ``True``.
 The ``type.__new__`` method computes the type attribute
 ``__abstractmethods__`` as the set of all method names that have an
 ``__isabstractmethod__`` attribute whose value is true.  It does this
-by combining the ``__abstractmethods__` attributes of the base
+by combining the ``__abstractmethods__`` attributes of the base
 classes, adding the names of all methods in the new class dict that
 have a true ``__isabstractmethod__`` attribute, and removing the names
 of all methods in the new class dict that don't have a true