diff --git a/libavfilter/graphparser.h b/libavfilter/graphparser.h
index b3272e8a43..d21d7faeb7 100644
--- a/libavfilter/graphparser.h
+++ b/libavfilter/graphparser.h
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ typedef struct AVFilterInOut {
 } AVFilterInOut;
 
 /**
- * Add to a graph a graph described by a string.
+ * Adds a graph described by a string to a graph.
  *
  * @param graph   the filter graph where to link the parsed graph context
  * @param filters string to be parsed