diff --git a/docs/model-api.txt b/docs/model-api.txt
index 09440f2b568..7b18dfc0484 100644
--- a/docs/model-api.txt
+++ b/docs/model-api.txt
@@ -1876,7 +1876,7 @@ used by the SQLite Python bindings. This is for the sake of consistency and
 sanity.)
 
 A final note: If all you want to do is a custom ``WHERE`` clause, you can just
-just the ``where``, ``tables`` and ``params`` arguments to the standard lookup
+use the ``where``, ``tables`` and ``params`` arguments to the standard lookup
 API. See `Other lookup options`_.
 
 .. _Python DB-API: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0249.html