diff --git a/datafusion/physical-plan/README.md b/datafusion/physical-plan/README.md
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@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 [DataFusion](df) is an extensible query execution framework, written in Rust, that uses Apache Arrow as its in-memory format.
 
-This crate is a submodule of DataFusion that contains the `ExecutionPlan` trait and the variou implementations of that
+This crate is a submodule of DataFusion that contains the `ExecutionPlan` trait and the various implementations of that
 trait for built in operators such as filters, projections, joins, aggregations, etc.
 
 [df]: https://crates.io/crates/datafusion