diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_combinebackup.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_combinebackup.sgml
index c21160a195..def1e38ae6 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_combinebackup.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_combinebackup.sgml
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
    that the backups you specify form a legal backup chain from which a correct
    full backup can be reconstructed. However, it is not designed to help you
    keep track of which backups depend on which other backups. If you remove
-   the one or more of the previous backups upon which your incremental
+   one or more of the previous backups upon which your incremental
    backup relies, you will not be able to restore it. Moreover,
    <application>pg_combinebackup</application> only attempts to verify that the
    backups have the correct relationship to each other, not that each