diff --git a/src/string.f90 b/src/string.f90
index 03d67cb43f..7250c5ed6d 100644
--- a/src/string.f90
+++ b/src/string.f90
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ contains
 
 !=====================================================================
 ! SPLIT_STRING takes a sentence and splits it into separate words much
-! the Python string.split() method.
+! like the Python string.split() method.
 !
 ! Arguments:
 !   string = input line