diff --git a/Doc/library/unittest.rst b/Doc/library/unittest.rst
index 224adf08567ec8..adea431ed48b09 100644
--- a/Doc/library/unittest.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/unittest.rst
@@ -724,7 +724,7 @@ Test cases
 
    .. method:: setUpClass()
 
-      A class method called before tests in an individual class run.
+      A class method called before tests in an individual class are run.
       ``setUpClass`` is called with the class as the only argument
       and must be decorated as a :func:`classmethod`::