diff --git a/examples/language-modeling/README.md b/examples/language-modeling/README.md
index b1b6b484b6e..2a62f7e4a00 100644
--- a/examples/language-modeling/README.md
+++ b/examples/language-modeling/README.md
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ context length for permutation language modeling.
 The `--max_span_length` flag may also be used to limit the length of a span of masked tokens used 
 for permutation language modeling.
 
-Here is how to fine-tun XLNet on wikitext-2:
+Here is how to fine-tune XLNet on wikitext-2:
 
 ```bash
 python run_plm.py \