diff --git a/ngrams/term_frequencies.py b/ngrams/term_frequencies.py
index 28529dc..1253ded 100755
--- a/ngrams/term_frequencies.py
+++ b/ngrams/term_frequencies.py
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ def my_tokenizer(text, mwe_pass, mwe_tokenize, stopWords, ngram_output):
         for sentence in sentences:
             if random() <= 0.1:
                 grams = list(chain(*map(lambda i : ngrams(sentence,i),range(4))))
-                Path(ngram_output).mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+                Path(ngram_output).parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
                 with open(ngram_output,'a') as gram_file:
                     for ng in grams:
                         gram_file.write(' '.join(ng) + '\n')