diff --git a/source/use-cases/metadata-and-asset-management.txt b/source/use-cases/metadata-and-asset-management.txt
index 75fc288b1f2..fe886c3c7a0 100644
--- a/source/use-cases/metadata-and-asset-management.txt
+++ b/source/use-cases/metadata-and-asset-management.txt
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ hold a sub-document. Consider the following prototype:
    }
 
 Photos require a different approach. Because photos can be potentially
-large these documents, it's important to separate the binary photo
+larger than these documents, it's important to separate the binary photo
 storage from the nodes metadata.
 
 :term:`GridFS` provides the ability to store larger files in MongoDB.