diff --git a/docs/topics/email.txt b/docs/topics/email.txt
index ebb4e57a39..c9c0050b96 100644
--- a/docs/topics/email.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/email.txt
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ guarantees that any recipient will be able to read the e-mail, regardless of
 their mail client. However, if you are confident that your recipients can
 handle an alternative content type, you can use the ``content_subtype``
 attribute on the ``EmailMessage`` class to change the main content type. The
-major type will always be ``"text"``, but you can change it to the subtype. For
+major type will always be ``"text"``, but you can change the subtype. For
 example::
 
     msg = EmailMessage(subject, html_content, from_email, [to])