diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index bc606882c51..fce0400f3bf 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ what parts of the Emacs distribution.  The areas can be defined
 "arbitrarily", but should provide fairly well-defined boundaries so
 that there are not too many ambiguities.
 
-The list below decomposed into 3 parts.  First the list of areas that
+The list below consists of 3 parts.  First, the list of areas that
 someone wants to be maintaining (i.e. has a particularly keen interest
 for it); then the list of areas that someone is willing to maintain,
 although he would not necessarily mind if someone else was the