diff --git a/docs/manual/developer/modguide.xml b/docs/manual/developer/modguide.xml
index 898396a831..94717e5a25 100644
--- a/docs/manual/developer/modguide.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/developer/modguide.xml
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ In C code, our example handler will now look like this:
static int example_handler(request_rec *r)
{
/* First off, we need to check if this is a call for the "example-handler" handler.
- * If it is, we accept it and do our things, it not, we simply return DECLINED,
+ * If it is, we accept it and do our things, if not, we simply return DECLINED,
* and Apache will try somewhere else.
*/
if (!r->handler || strcmp(r->handler, "example-handler")) return (DECLINED);