diff --git a/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/production-ready-features.adoc b/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/production-ready-features.adoc
index d9e8476ec29..eca4e004c7b 100644
--- a/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/production-ready-features.adoc
+++ b/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/production-ready-features.adoc
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ You can then refer to your Gradle project's properties via placeholders, e.g.
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 NOTE: Gradle's `expand` method uses Groovy's `SimpleTemplateEngine` which transforms
-`${..}` tokens. This `${..}` style conflicts with Spring's own property placeholder
+`${..}` tokens. The `${..}` style conflicts with Spring's own property placeholder
 mechanism. To use Spring property placeholders together with automatic expansion
 the Spring property placeholders need to be escaped like `\${..}`.