diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml
index 07560cfb49..07427b4c9c 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml
@@ -489,7 +489,7 @@
         </para>
 
         <para>
-            The build processes uses the <filename>*_setscene</filename> tasks
+            The build processes use the <filename>*_setscene</filename> tasks
             for the task acceleration phase.
             BitBake goes through this phase before the main execution code and tries
             to accelerate any tasks for which it can find shared state packages.