diff --git a/zip/README b/zip/README
index b0ffd21b426bc7299322040bb69fc0b1a765721e..a7e8ad9d8edfd2ad25f59f5fb5043ed2864dc4ed 100644
--- a/zip/README
+++ b/zip/README
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 The compression package "zlib" is part of the zip directory. The original tar 
 file can be downloaded from : http://www.zlib.org 
 
-Only the useful code as been extracted from this tar file. It consists of: 
+Only the useful code has been extracted from this tar file. It consists of: 
 
  zip/inc:
    crc32.h deflate.h inffast.h inffixed.h inflate.h