diff --git a/source/administration/sharded-clusters.txt b/source/administration/sharded-clusters.txt
index 87c7c1940ec..71ef2a4f8d8 100644
--- a/source/administration/sharded-clusters.txt
+++ b/source/administration/sharded-clusters.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ consists of the following components:
 
 - :ref:`Shards <sharding-shards>`. Each shard is a separate
   :program:`mongod` instance or :term:`replica set` that holds a portion
-  of the your database collections.
+  of the database collections.
 
 - :ref:`Config servers <sharding-config-server>`. Each config server is
   a :program:`mongod` instances that holds metadata about the cluster.