diff --git a/man7/cgroups.7 b/man7/cgroups.7
index dd4fa5980..e6cbbd08b 100644
--- a/man7/cgroups.7
+++ b/man7/cgroups.7
@@ -215,8 +215,7 @@ in particular,
 automatically creates such mount points.
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 .SS Creating cgroups and moving processes
-A cgroup filesystem initially contains
-a single root cgroup (per hierarchy), '/',
+A cgroup filesystem initially contains a single root cgroup, '/',
 which all processes belong to.
 A new cgroup is created by creating a directory in the cgroup filesystem: