diff --git a/doc/walkthrough/backups.mdwn b/doc/walkthrough/backups.mdwn
index b51a887949..223e0b2eef 100644
--- a/doc/walkthrough/backups.mdwn
+++ b/doc/walkthrough/backups.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-git-annex can be configured to require more than one copy of a file exists,
+git-annex can be configured to require that more than one copy of a file exists,
 as a simple backup for your data. This is controlled by the
 numcopies setting, which defaults to 1 copy. Let's
 change that to require 2 copies, and send a copy of every file