diff --git a/source/tutorial/getting-started.txt b/source/tutorial/getting-started.txt
index 80c3f3f53dd..041f3e5a26e 100644
--- a/source/tutorial/getting-started.txt
+++ b/source/tutorial/getting-started.txt
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ iterate over the remaining results. This prevents :program:`mongo`
 from displaying thousands or millions of results at once.
 
 The ``it`` operation allows you to iterate over the next 20 results in
-the shell the next 20 results. In the :ref:`previous procedure
+the shell. In the :ref:`previous procedure
 <getting-started-cursor-exhaustion>`, the cursor only contained two
 more documents, and so only two more documents displayed.