diff --git a/docs/topics/items.rst b/docs/topics/items.rst
index 4a8f47e93..4423bbda2 100644
--- a/docs/topics/items.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/items.rst
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ their available fields.
 Various Scrapy components use extra information provided by Items: 
 exporters look at declared fields to figure out columns to export,
 serialization can be customized using Item fields metadata, :mod:`trackref`
-tracks Item instances to help finding memory leaks 
+tracks Item instances to help find memory leaks 
 (see :ref:`topics-leaks-trackrefs`), etc.
 
 .. _dictionary-like: https://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#dict