diff --git a/Doc/faq/programming.rst b/Doc/faq/programming.rst
index c54bb28..d506a8e 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/programming.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/programming.rst
@@ -979,8 +979,8 @@
 :func:`float`.  ``split()`` supports an optional "sep" parameter which is useful
 if the line uses something other than whitespace as a separator.
 
-For more complicated input parsing, regular expressions more powerful than C's
-:cfunc:`sscanf` and better suited for the task.
+For more complicated input parsing, regular expressions are more powerful
+than C's :cfunc:`sscanf` and better suited for the task.
 
 
 What does 'UnicodeError: ASCII [decoding,encoding] error: ordinal not in range(128)' mean?