diff --git a/content/en/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/out-of-resource.md b/content/en/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/out-of-resource.md
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@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ pods on the node.
 
 ## Node OOM Behavior
 
-If the node experiences a system OOM (out of memory) event prior to the `kubelet` is able to reclaim memory,
+If the node experiences a system OOM (out of memory) event prior to the `kubelet` being able to reclaim memory,
 the node depends on the [oom_killer](https://lwn.net/Articles/391222/) to respond.
 
 The `kubelet` sets a `oom_score_adj` value for each container based on the quality of service for the Pod.