diff --git a/docs/topics/request-response.rst b/docs/topics/request-response.rst
index 192f4caee..69e4b738b 100644
--- a/docs/topics/request-response.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/request-response.rst
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ TextResponse objects
 
             unicode(response.body)
 
-        Since, in the latter case, you would be using you system default encoding
+        Since, in the latter case, you would be using the system default encoding
         (typically `ascii`) to convert the body to unicode, instead of the response
         encoding.