diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_fdset.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_fdset.3
index f2b3f9aedb59ae7e469bbca1a5edb78e825537a3..01211b63fa9d89947d8ef96cf440167e287e2712 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_fdset.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_fdset.3
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ CURLMcode curl_multi_fdset(CURLM *multi_handle,
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 .SH DESCRIPTION
 This function extracts file descriptor information from a given multi_handle.
-libcurl returns its fd_set sets. The application can use these to select() or
-poll() on. The curl_multi_perform() function should be called as soon as one
-of them are ready to be read from or written to.
+libcurl returns its fd_set sets. The application can use these to select()
+on. The curl_multi_perform() function should be called as soon as one of them
+are ready to be read from or written to.
 
 NOTE that once this call is made, you must not remove the sets you point to,
 as libcurl will need to be able to read them. It needs them after select()