diff --git a/peps/pep-0765.rst b/peps/pep-0765.rst
index b73e807a41c..239ec6748b7 100644
--- a/peps/pep-0765.rst
+++ b/peps/pep-0765.rst
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ allowing control flow statements is not that this would be useful, but rather
 the desire for orthogonality of features (which, as we mentioned in the
 introduction, is already violated in the case of ``except*`` clauses). However,
 the proposed semantics are complicated because they suggest that ``return``,
-``break`` and ``continue`` behave as they normally when ``finally`` is used
+``break`` and ``continue`` behave as they normally when ``finally`` executes
 without an in-flight exception, but turn into something like a bare ``raise``
 when there is one. It is hard to claim that the features are orthogonal if
 the presence of one changes the semantics of the other.