diff --git a/source/administration/replica-sets.txt b/source/administration/replica-sets.txt
index 832934ed4e0..ce7ee735264 100644
--- a/source/administration/replica-sets.txt
+++ b/source/administration/replica-sets.txt
@@ -1137,7 +1137,7 @@ Consider the following error in :program:`mongod` output and logs:
    replSet error fatal couldn't query the local local.oplog.rs collection.  Terminating mongod after 30 seconds.
    <timestamp> [rsStart] bad replSet oplog entry?
 
-The most often cause of this error is wrongly typed value for the
+The most often cause of this error is that the
 ``ts`` field in the last :term:`oplog` entry might be of the wrong
 data type. The correct data type is Timestamp.