diff --git a/docs/Gems,-Eggs-and-Perl-Modules.md b/docs/Gems,-Eggs-and-Perl-Modules.md
index 6535bd3006..9cfdf852ec 100644
--- a/docs/Gems,-Eggs-and-Perl-Modules.md
+++ b/docs/Gems,-Eggs-and-Perl-Modules.md
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ subdirectories will be in your `PATH` and `PERL5LIB`.
 
 ### Avoiding sudo altogether for Perl
 
-If you don’t even want (or can’t) use sudo for bootstrapping
+If you don’t even want to (or can’t) use sudo for bootstrapping
 `local::lib`, just manually install `local::lib` in
 `~/perl5` and add the relevant path to `PERL5LIB` before the `.bashrc` eval incantation.