diff --git a/stdlib/LinearAlgebra/src/dense.jl b/stdlib/LinearAlgebra/src/dense.jl
index 36e886371f36c..5d69e48ad9e26 100644
--- a/stdlib/LinearAlgebra/src/dense.jl
+++ b/stdlib/LinearAlgebra/src/dense.jl
@@ -1363,8 +1363,8 @@ end
     nullspace(M, rtol::Real) = nullspace(M; rtol=rtol) # to be deprecated in Julia 2.0
 
 Computes a basis for the nullspace of `M` by including the singular
-vectors of A whose singular have magnitude are greater than `max(atol, rtol*σ₁)`,
-where `σ₁` is `M`'s largest singularvalue.
+vectors of `M` whose singular values have magnitudes greater than `max(atol, rtol*σ₁)`,
+where `σ₁` is `M`'s largest singular value.
 
 By default, the relative tolerance `rtol` is `n*ϵ`, where `n`
 is the size of the smallest dimension of `M`, and `ϵ` is the [`eps`](@ref) of