diff --git a/docs/admin/authentication.md b/docs/admin/authentication.md
index 064b7cd50f..a3726cbf2d 100644
--- a/docs/admin/authentication.md
+++ b/docs/admin/authentication.md
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ or be treated as an anonymous user.
 ## Authentication strategies
 
 Kubernetes uses client certificates, bearer tokens, an authenticating proxy, or HTTP basic auth to
-authenticate API requests through authentication plugins. As HTTP request are
+authenticate API requests through authentication plugins. As HTTP requests are
 made to the API server, plugins attempt to associate the following attributes
 with the request: