diff --git a/docs/tasks/run-application/horizontal-pod-autoscale.md b/docs/tasks/run-application/horizontal-pod-autoscale.md
index c900799f46..049d51f165 100644
--- a/docs/tasks/run-application/horizontal-pod-autoscale.md
+++ b/docs/tasks/run-application/horizontal-pod-autoscale.md
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ or the custom metrics API (for all other metrics).
   Then, if a target utilization value is set, the controller calculates the utilization
   value as a percentage of the equivalent resource request on the containers in
   each pod.  If a target raw value is set, the raw metric values are used directly.
-  the controller then takes the mean of the utilization or the raw value (depending on the type
+  The controller then takes the mean of the utilization or the raw value (depending on the type
   of target specified) across all targeted pods, and produces a ratio used to scale
   the number of desired replicas.