diff --git a/src/ae.c b/src/ae.c
index e6f8df877..1c3a4e091 100644
--- a/src/ae.c
+++ b/src/ae.c
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ int aeProcessEvents(aeEventLoop *eventLoop, int flags)
     /* Nothing to do? return ASAP */
     if (!(flags & AE_TIME_EVENTS) && !(flags & AE_FILE_EVENTS)) return 0;
 
-    /* Note that we want call select() even if there are no
+    /* Note that we want to call select() even if there are no
      * file events to process as long as we want to process time
      * events, in order to sleep until the next time event is ready
      * to fire. */