diff --git a/docs/refcounting.txt b/docs/refcounting.txt
index 7130f1654c..61a161d39f 100644
--- a/docs/refcounting.txt
+++ b/docs/refcounting.txt
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ Taking care of proper referencing
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 There are some cases where referencing of widgets from outside the toolkit
-(on the application side is needed).
+(on the application side) is needed.
 Once the application performes an operation on a widget that will cause
 its reference count to drop, if it wants to take further actions on the
 widget, it needs to hold a reference to it.