fix verb (closes #21174)

diff --git a/Doc/library/exceptions.rst b/Doc/library/exceptions.rst
index e3e6536e901054938c01823893e96307a85ba200..9943b9a55ba72f3af4eb2b3016f4e87bb8b62445 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/exceptions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/exceptions.rst
@@ -158,9 +158,9 @@ The following exceptions are the exceptions that are actually raised.
 
 .. exception:: GeneratorExit
 
-   Raise when a :term:`generator`\'s :meth:`close` method is called.  It
-   directly inherits from :exc:`BaseException` instead of :exc:`StandardError` since
-   it is technically not an error.
+   Raised when a :term:`generator`\'s :meth:`close` method is called.  It
+   directly inherits from :exc:`BaseException` instead of :exc:`StandardError`
+   since it is technically not an error.
 
    .. versionadded:: 2.5