diff --git a/docs/content/guide/directive.ngdoc b/docs/content/guide/directive.ngdoc
index f47cf368120d..a40e3ee85803 100644
--- a/docs/content/guide/directive.ngdoc
+++ b/docs/content/guide/directive.ngdoc
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ The other forms shown above are accepted for legacy reasons but we advise you to
 `$compile` can match directives based on element names (E), attributes (A), class names (C),
 and comments (M).
 
-The built-in the AngularJS directives show in their documentation page which type of matching they support.
+The built-in AngularJS directives show in their documentation page which type of matching they support.
 
 The following demonstrates the various ways a directive (`myDir` in this case) that matches all
 4 types can be referenced from within a template.