diff --git a/docs/guide/input.md b/docs/guide/input.md
index c35305d955..4e997cc1c2 100644
--- a/docs/guide/input.md
+++ b/docs/guide/input.md
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ Textual will send a [MouseCapture](../events/mouse_capture.md) event when the mo
 Textual will send a [Enter](../events/enter.md) event to a widget when the mouse cursor first moves over it, and a [Leave](../events/leave.md) event when the cursor moves off a widget.
 
 Both `Enter` and `Leave` _bubble_, so a widget may receive these events from a child widget.
-You can check the initial widget these events were send to by comparing the `node` attribute against `self` in the message handler.
+You can check the initial widget these events were sent to by comparing the `node` attribute against `self` in the message handler.
 
 ### Click events