diff --git a/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst b/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst
index b10b39ae22a..a825efc1a67 100644
--- a/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst
+++ b/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst
@@ -941,7 +941,7 @@ timestamp dependency analysis.
 .. function:: newer_group(sources, target[, missing='error'])
 
    Return true if *target* is out-of-date with respect to any file listed in
-   *sources*  In other words, if *target* exists and is newer than every file in
+   *sources*.  In other words, if *target* exists and is newer than every file in
    *sources*, return false; otherwise return true. *missing* controls what we do
    when a source file is missing; the default (``'error'``) is to blow up with an
    :exc:`OSError` from  inside :func:`os.stat`; if it is ``'ignore'``, we silently