diff --git a/site/docs/configuration.md b/site/docs/configuration.md
index ca6ea87e..96042bed 100644
--- a/site/docs/configuration.md
+++ b/site/docs/configuration.md
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ class="flag">flags</code> (specified on the command-line) that control them.
         <p class="description">
             Set the encoding of files by name. Only available for Ruby
             1.9 or later).
-            The default value is nil, which use Ruby default,
+            The default value is nil, which uses the Ruby default,
             <code>ASCII-8BIT</code>.
             Available encoding for the ruby in use, can be shown by
             command <code>ruby -e 'puts Encoding::list.join("\n")'</code>