diff --git a/man7/ipv6.7 b/man7/ipv6.7
index 6224c6e67..c4e6cac30 100644
--- a/man7/ipv6.7
+++ b/man7/ipv6.7
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ should be used.
 .PP
 IPv4 connections can be handled with the v6 API by using the
 v4-mapped-on-v6 address type;
-thus a program only needs to support this API type to
+thus a program needs to support only this API type to
 support both protocols.
 This is handled transparently by the address
 handling functions in the C library.