diff --git a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/java_new.g b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/java_new.g
index c747f906e..b5bbe8d20 100644
--- a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/java_new.g
+++ b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/java_new.g
@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ traditionalStatement
 	|	"return"^ (expression)? SEMI!
 
 	// switch/case statement
-	|	"switch"^ LPAREN! expression RPAREN! LCURLY!
+	|	"switch"^ LPAREN! expression RPAREN! LCURLY
 			( casesGroup )*
 		RCURLY