diff --git a/doc/man/man1/salloc.1 b/doc/man/man1/salloc.1
index 3f52fd851550bff4ca9c52c7e336a1200b138569..f1b65ee90e52a71fff1c084597c1fcc0496f050e 100644
--- a/doc/man/man1/salloc.1
+++ b/doc/man/man1/salloc.1
@@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ example "\-K1" and not "\-K 1".
 
 .TP
 \fB\-k\fR, \fB\-\-no\-kill\fR
-Do not automatically terminate a job of one of the nodes it has been
+Do not automatically terminate a job if one of the nodes it has been
 allocated fails.  The user will assume the responsibilities for fault\-tolerance
 should a node fail.  When there is a node failure, any active job steps (usually
 MPI jobs) on that node will almost certainly suffer a fatal error, but with
diff --git a/doc/man/man1/sbatch.1 b/doc/man/man1/sbatch.1
index ac4bf23ca1a69a4ccbfe1f97318a6ac804cbcf40..d56df64376ad24896e75c3210e8a2e8c71c4e33a 100644
--- a/doc/man/man1/sbatch.1
+++ b/doc/man/man1/sbatch.1
@@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ NOTE: Only valid for user root.
 
 .TP
 \fB\-k\fR, \fB\-\-no\-kill\fR
-Do not automatically terminate a job of one of the nodes it has been
+Do not automatically terminate a job if one of the nodes it has been
 allocated fails.  The user will assume the responsibilities for fault\-tolerance
 should a node fail.  When there is a node failure, any active job steps (usually
 MPI jobs) on that node will almost certainly suffer a fatal error, but with
diff --git a/doc/man/man1/srun.1 b/doc/man/man1/srun.1
index b22906628c28edaa4bd2562002ed2f9d048ff3a4..c1de00caa3ccc68acfde1a0735a8651884f7700b 100644
--- a/doc/man/man1/srun.1
+++ b/doc/man/man1/srun.1
@@ -653,7 +653,7 @@ not include a space between them. For example "\-K1" and not "\-K 1".
 
 .TP
 \fB\-k\fR, \fB\-\-no\-kill\fR
-Do not automatically terminate a job of one of the nodes it has been
+Do not automatically terminate a job if one of the nodes it has been
 allocated fails.  This option is only recognized on a job allocation,
 not for the submission of individual job steps.
 The job will assume all responsibilities for fault\-tolerance.