diff --git a/book/02-git-basics/sections/remotes.asc b/book/02-git-basics/sections/remotes.asc
index 2deb8fba0..80e98250a 100644
--- a/book/02-git-basics/sections/remotes.asc
+++ b/book/02-git-basics/sections/remotes.asc
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ pb	https://github.com/paulboone/ticgit (fetch)
 pb	https://github.com/paulboone/ticgit (push)
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-Now you can use the string `pb` on the command line in lieu of the whole URL.
+Now you can use the string `pb` on the command line instead of the whole URL.
 For example, if you want to fetch all the information that Paul has but that you don't yet have in your repository, you can run `git fetch pb`:
 
 [source,console]