diff --git a/src/nm-config.c b/src/nm-config.c
index 32faace562..cb4e0853cf 100644
--- a/src/nm-config.c
+++ b/src/nm-config.c
@@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ read_config (GKeyFile *keyfile, gboolean is_base_config, const char *dirname, co
 	}
 
 	/* the config-group is internal to every configuration snippets. It doesn't make sense
-	 * to merge the into the global configuration, and it doesn't make sense to preserve the
+	 * to merge it into the global configuration, and it doesn't make sense to preserve the
 	 * group beyond this point. */
 	g_key_file_remove_group (kf, NM_CONFIG_KEYFILE_GROUP_CONFIG, NULL);