diff --git a/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/io/CompilationException.java b/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/io/CompilationException.java
index 4fa727be20..735bba42b2 100644
--- a/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/io/CompilationException.java
+++ b/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/io/CompilationException.java
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 import org.apache.parquet.ParquetRuntimeException;
 
 /**
- * thrown when a problem occured while compiling the column reader
+ * thrown when a problem occurred while compiling the column reader
  */
 public class CompilationException extends ParquetRuntimeException {
   private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
diff --git a/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/io/ParquetDecodingException.java b/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/io/ParquetDecodingException.java
index 48cec808fc..9cab17dd33 100644
--- a/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/io/ParquetDecodingException.java
+++ b/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/io/ParquetDecodingException.java
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 import org.apache.parquet.ParquetRuntimeException;
 
 /**
- * thrown when an encoding problem occured
+ * thrown when an encoding problem occurred
  */
 public class ParquetDecodingException extends ParquetRuntimeException {
   private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
diff --git a/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/io/ParquetEncodingException.java b/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/io/ParquetEncodingException.java
index 857c9cae88..aa6ce47dec 100644
--- a/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/io/ParquetEncodingException.java
+++ b/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/io/ParquetEncodingException.java
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 import org.apache.parquet.ParquetRuntimeException;
 
 /**
- * thrown when a decoding problem occured
+ * thrown when a decoding problem occurred
  */
 public class ParquetEncodingException extends ParquetRuntimeException {
   private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;