diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 576225cda3..b656253b64 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -333,6 +333,6 @@ Changes since Asterisk 1.2:
                       o JitterBuffer support added
     * Removed Codecs/Channels:
          1. codec_g723 was removed because the actual codec implementation it was designed to use is not distributable
-         2. chan_modem_* and related modules is gone because the kernel support for those interfaces is old, buggy and unsupported
+         2. chan_modem_* and related modules are gone because the kernel support for those interfaces is old, buggy and unsupported
     * New Utils:
          1. aelparse -- compile .ael files outside of asterisk