diff --git a/packages/@aws-cdk/sns/examples/README.md b/packages/@aws-cdk/sns/examples/README.md
index ef2ce5fcf26dc..95ecbec2eafbb 100644
--- a/packages/@aws-cdk/sns/examples/README.md
+++ b/packages/@aws-cdk/sns/examples/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-The files in this directory cannot actually be compiles,
-because actually including their dependencies would introduce
-a dependency cycle. I've put them off to the side for now,
-but we should fix this at some point, probably by putting
-them in a separate project.
+The files in this directory cannot actually be compiled, because including their
+dependencies would introduce a dependency cycle. I've put them off to the side
+for now, but we should fix this at some point, probably by putting them in a
+separate project.