diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc
index f02e9b4..2806eb1 100644
--- a/README.adoc
+++ b/README.adoc
@@ -548,7 +548,7 @@ interface UserRepository : CrudRepository<User, Long> {
 }
 ----
 
-And we write JPA tests to check basic use cases works as expected.
+And we write JPA tests to check whether basic use cases work as expected.
 
 `src/test/kotlin/com/example/blog/RepositoriesTests.kt`
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