diff --git a/docs/guide/events.md b/docs/guide/events.md
index da58de8b6..9cdfb3259 100644
--- a/docs/guide/events.md
+++ b/docs/guide/events.md
@@ -186,4 +186,4 @@ Let's look at an example which looks up word definitions from an [api](https://d
     ```{.textual path="docs/examples/events/dictionary.py" press="tab,t,e,x,t,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,_"}
     ```
 
-Note the highlighted line in the above code which calls `asyncio.create_task` to run coroutine in the background. Without this you would find typing in to the text box to be unresponsive.
+Note the highlighted line in the above code which calls `asyncio.create_task` to run a coroutine in the background. Without this you would find typing in to the text box to be unresponsive.