diff --git a/share/man/man7/tuning.7 b/share/man/man7/tuning.7
index 2b4b9d9cc188..a534fde80ce3 100644
--- a/share/man/man7/tuning.7
+++ b/share/man/man7/tuning.7
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ Softupdates drastically improves meta-data performance, mainly file
 creation and deletion.
 We recommend enabling softupdates on most filesystems; however, there
 are two limitations to softupdates that you should be aware of when
-determining whether to use softupdates on a filesystem.
+determining whether to use it on a filesystem.
 First, softupdates guarantees filesystem consistency in the
 case of a crash but could very easily be several seconds (even a minute!)
 behind updating the physical disk.