diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/vm/chapter.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/vm/chapter.xml
index 989f80bb5a..8dbd211e15 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/vm/chapter.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/vm/chapter.xml
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@
       buffers, <literal>struct buf</literal>'s, or
       <literal>bp</literal>'s.  When a filesystem needs to operate on
       a portion of a VM object, it typically maps part of the object
-      into a struct buf and the maps the pages in the struct buf into
+      into a struct buf and then maps the pages in the struct buf into
       KVM.  In the same manner, disk I/O is typically issued by
       mapping portions of objects into buffer structures and then
       issuing the I/O on the buffer structures.  The underlying