diff --git a/specifications/xpath-functions-40/src/function-catalog.xml b/specifications/xpath-functions-40/src/function-catalog.xml
index 45f2e37ab..467b4b628 100644
--- a/specifications/xpath-functions-40/src/function-catalog.xml
+++ b/specifications/xpath-functions-40/src/function-catalog.xml
@@ -5113,7 +5113,7 @@ return normalize-unicode(concat($v1, $v2))</eg>
       <fos:changes>
          <fos:change issue="701" PR="702" date="2023-09-19">
             <p>The function can now take any number of arguments (previously it had to be two or more), and
-            the arguments can sequences of strings rather than single strings.</p>
+            the arguments can be sequences of strings rather than single strings.</p>
          </fos:change>
       </fos:changes>
    </fos:function>