diff --git a/man7/tcp.7 b/man7/tcp.7
index 737198f15..dd36bbfbe 100644
--- a/man7/tcp.7
+++ b/man7/tcp.7
@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ When enabled, connectivity to some destinations could be affected
 due to older, misbehaving middle boxes along the path, causing
 connections to be dropped.
 However, to facilitate and encourage deployment with option 1, and
-to work around such buggy equipment,
+to work around such buggy equipment, the
 .B tcp_ecn_fallback
 option has been introduced.
 .TP