diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index f10fe51..db7c55d 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@
 
 #
 # SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem
-# allocations when memory_present() is called.  If this can not
+# allocations when memory_present() is called.  If this cannot
 # be done on your architecture, select this option.  However,
 # statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially
 # consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful.