diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-tools/spring-boot-gradle-plugin/src/docs/asciidoc/packaging.adoc b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-tools/spring-boot-gradle-plugin/src/docs/asciidoc/packaging.adoc
index a98c7258e15..a6806c8c08b 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-tools/spring-boot-gradle-plugin/src/docs/asciidoc/packaging.adoc
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-tools/spring-boot-gradle-plugin/src/docs/asciidoc/packaging.adoc
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ NOTE: `providedRuntime` is preferred to Gradle's `compileOnly` configuration as,
 By default, when the `bootJar` or `bootWar` tasks are configured, the `jar` or `war` tasks are configured to use `plain` as the convention for their archive classifier.
 This ensures that `bootJar` and `jar` or `bootWar` and `war` have different output locations, allowing both the executable archive and the plain archive to be built at the same time.
 
-If you prefer that its the executable archive, rather than the plain archive, that uses a classifier, configure the classifiers as shown in the following example for the `jar` and `bootJar` tasks:
+If you prefer that the executable archive, rather than the plain archive, uses a classifier, configure the classifiers as shown in the following example for the `jar` and `bootJar` tasks:
 
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