diff --git a/doc/src/Developer_write.rst b/doc/src/Developer_write.rst
index 5e0f9d12bb..37ac9ca126 100644
--- a/doc/src/Developer_write.rst
+++ b/doc/src/Developer_write.rst
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ of each timestep. First of all, implement a constructor:
    }
 
 In the constructor you should parse your fix arguments which are
-specified in the script. All fixes have pretty the same syntax:
+specified in the script. All fixes have pretty much the same syntax:
 ``fix <fix-ID> <fix group> <fix name> <fix arguments ...>``. The
 first 3 parameters are parsed by Fix base class constructor, while
 ``<fix arguments>`` should be parsed by you. In our case, we need to