diff --git a/make.1 b/make.1
index 4d6cd625..fa9db808 100644
--- a/make.1
+++ b/make.1
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ To get this information without doing anything else, use
 .BI \-f /dev/null.
 .TP 0.5i
 .B \-w
-Print a message containing the working directory before and after
+Print a message containing the working directory
 before and after other processing.
 This may be useful for tracking down errors from complicated nests of
 recursive