diff --git a/src/basic-syntax/type-inference.md b/src/basic-syntax/type-inference.md
index 2cc1960b..e658b0df 100644
--- a/src/basic-syntax/type-inference.md
+++ b/src/basic-syntax/type-inference.md
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ This slide demonstrates how the Rust compiler infers types based on constraints
     
 It is very important to emphasize that variables declared like this are not of some sort of dynamic "any type" that can
 hold any data. The machine code generated by such declaration is identical to the explicit declaration of a type.
-The compiler does the job for us and helps us to write a more concise code.
+The compiler does the job for us and helps us write more concise code.
 
 The following code tells the compiler to copy into a certain generic container without the code ever explicitly specifying the contained type, using `_` as a placeholder: