diff --git a/man7/cgroups.7 b/man7/cgroups.7
index a2dd7efa6..1a8fa25ec 100644
--- a/man7/cgroups.7
+++ b/man7/cgroups.7
@@ -1029,7 +1029,7 @@ because both hierarchies are owned by the unprivileged user
 the following illegitimate actions could be performed:
 .IP * 3
 A process in the inferior hierarchy could change the
-resource controller settings in the root directory of the that hierarchy.
+resource controller settings in the root directory of that hierarchy.
 (These resource controller settings are intended to allow control to
 be exercised from the
 .I parent