diff --git a/Documentation/networking/openvswitch.txt b/Documentation/networking/openvswitch.txt
index b8a048b8df3ad595c341928f09be127786f5147b..8fa2dd1e792e3ae3a1555dbb99c2048981452c6f 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/openvswitch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/openvswitch.txt
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ essentially like this, ignoring metadata:
 Naively, to add VLAN support, it makes sense to add a new "vlan" flow
 key attribute to contain the VLAN tag, then continue to decode the
 encapsulated headers beyond the VLAN tag using the existing field
-definitions.  With this change, an TCP packet in VLAN 10 would have a
+definitions.  With this change, a TCP packet in VLAN 10 would have a
 flow key much like this:
 
     eth(...), vlan(vid=10, pcp=0), eth_type(0x0800), ip(proto=6, ...), tcp(...)