diff --git a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
index b54bfd0daf2..e2cc80daa6e 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
@@ -741,7 +741,7 @@ there were no excess keyword arguments.
 If the syntax ``*expression`` appears in the function call, ``expression`` must
 evaluate to an iterable.  Elements from this iterable are treated as if they
 were additional positional arguments; if there are positional arguments
-*x1*,...,*xN*, and ``expression`` evaluates to a sequence *y1*, ..., *yM*, this
+*x1*, ..., *xN*, and ``expression`` evaluates to a sequence *y1*, ..., *yM*, this
 is equivalent to a call with M+N positional arguments *x1*, ..., *xN*, *y1*,
 ..., *yM*.