diff --git a/book/part1.rst b/book/part1.rst
index fdbb2e8787a..b937418b3df 100644
--- a/book/part1.rst
+++ b/book/part1.rst
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ autoloading. The Symfony2 ClassLoader Component provides an autoloader that
 implements this PSR-0 standard and most of the time, the Symfony2 ClassLoader
 is all you need to autoload all your project classes.
 
-Create and empty autoloader in a new ``autoload.php`` file:
+Create an empty autoloader in a new ``autoload.php`` file:
 
 .. code-block:: php