diff --git a/source/tutorial/create-tailable-cursor.txt b/source/tutorial/create-tailable-cursor.txt
index 3c0482c4e16..f905bb52788 100644
--- a/source/tutorial/create-tailable-cursor.txt
+++ b/source/tutorial/create-tailable-cursor.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Cursor* that remains open after the client exhausts the results in the
 initial cursor. Tailable cursors are conceptually equivalent to the
 ``tail`` Unix command with the ``-f`` option (i.e. with "follow"
 mode.) After clients insert new additional documents into a capped
-collection, the tailable cursor will to continue to retrieve
+collection, the tailable cursor will continue to retrieve
 documents.
 
 Use tailable cursors on capped collections with high numbers of write