diff --git a/cpp/ql/lib/semmle/code/cpp/security/InvalidPointerDereference/AllocationToInvalidPointer.qll b/cpp/ql/lib/semmle/code/cpp/security/InvalidPointerDereference/AllocationToInvalidPointer.qll
index c3db211fcc3..a22b98b59a5 100644
--- a/cpp/ql/lib/semmle/code/cpp/security/InvalidPointerDereference/AllocationToInvalidPointer.qll
+++ b/cpp/ql/lib/semmle/code/cpp/security/InvalidPointerDereference/AllocationToInvalidPointer.qll
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
  * ```
  * In order to remove this false positive we define a barrier (see `Barrier2::BarrierConfig2`) that finds the possible guards
  * that compares a value to the size of the allocation. In the above example, that's the `(n >= size)` guard on line 3.
- * `Barrier2::getABarrierNode` then defines any node that's guarded by such a guard as a barrier in the dataflow configuration.
+ * `Barrier2::getABarrierNode` then defines any node that is guarded by such a guard as a barrier in the dataflow configuration.
  */
 
 private import cpp