diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e947101..43b48bd 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ options:
   -p, --print           print output instead of serializing to a file
   -a {li,chain,hirao}, --algorithm {li,chain,hirao}
                         dependency head algorithm (default: li)
-  -s, --same_unit       retain use same-unit multinucs in hirao algorithm
+  -s, --same_unit       retain same-unit multinucs in hirao algorithm
 ```
 
 If you have installed the library you can run the converter directly on the commandline with the options you want like this:
diff --git a/rst2dep/rst2dep.py b/rst2dep/rst2dep.py
index 30a002a..ec4c2d2 100644
--- a/rst2dep/rst2dep.py
+++ b/rst2dep/rst2dep.py
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ def make_rsd(rstfile, xml_dep_root,as_text=False, docname=None, out_mode="conll"
                                                            "a directory xml/ containing additional corpus formats")
     parser.add_argument("-p","--print",dest="prnt",action="store_true",help="print output instead of serializing to a file")
     parser.add_argument("-a","--algorithm",choices=["li","chain","hirao"],help="dependency head algorithm (default: li)",default="li")
-    parser.add_argument("-s","--same_unit",action="store_true",help="retain use same-unit multinucs in hirao algorithm")
+    parser.add_argument("-s","--same_unit",action="store_true",help="retain same-unit multinucs in hirao algorithm")
 
     options = parser.parse_args()