diff --git a/Doc/library/pickle.rst b/Doc/library/pickle.rst
index ea854fae194..4f9d3596b64 100644
--- a/Doc/library/pickle.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/pickle.rst
@@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ methods:
 
 .. method:: object.__getnewargs__()
 
-   This method serve a similar purpose as :meth:`__getnewargs_ex__`, but
+   This method serves a similar purpose as :meth:`__getnewargs_ex__`, but
    supports only positional arguments.  It must return a tuple of arguments
    ``args`` which will be passed to the :meth:`__new__` method upon unpickling.