diff --git a/src/doc/trpl/references-and-borrowing.md b/src/doc/trpl/references-and-borrowing.md
index c434371ce59d3..bb5adac5ebfc1 100644
--- a/src/doc/trpl/references-and-borrowing.md
+++ b/src/doc/trpl/references-and-borrowing.md
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ We can’t modify `v` because it’s borrowed by the loop.
 References must live as long as the resource they refer to. Rust will check the
 scopes of your references to ensure that this is true.
 
-If Rust didn’t check that this property, we could accidentally use a reference
+If Rust didn’t check this property, we could accidentally use a reference
 which was invalid. For example:
 
 ```rust,ignore