diff --git a/Doc/library/copy.rst b/Doc/library/copy.rst
index a8adcadbe05..d0b861d469b 100644
--- a/Doc/library/copy.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/copy.rst
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ copy operations:
   reference to themselves) may cause a recursive loop.
 
 * Because deep copy copies *everything* it may copy too much, e.g.,
-  administrative data structures that should be shared even between copies.
+  even administrative data structures that should be shared even between copies.
 
 The :func:`deepcopy` function avoids these problems by: