diff --git a/common/common.cpp b/common/common.cpp
index 88532a3ee..b8323c1c1 100644
--- a/common/common.cpp
+++ b/common/common.cpp
@@ -1373,7 +1373,7 @@ void gpt_print_usage(int /*argc*/, char ** argv, const gpt_params & params) {
     printf("  -dt N, --defrag-thold N\n");
     printf("                        KV cache defragmentation threshold (default: %.1f, < 0 - disabled)\n", params.defrag_thold);
     printf("  --ignore-eos          ignore end of stream token and continue generating (implies --logit-bias 2-inf)\n");
-    printf("  --no-penalize-nl      do not penalize newline token\n");
+    printf("  --penalize-nl         penalize newline tokens\n");
     printf("  --temp N              temperature (default: %.1f)\n", (double)sparams.temp);
     printf("  --all-logits          return logits for all tokens in the batch (default: disabled)\n");
     printf("  --hellaswag           compute HellaSwag score over random tasks from datafile supplied with -f\n");