diff --git a/content/tutorial/tutorial.md b/content/tutorial/tutorial.md
index 275985909..66c3562aa 100644
--- a/content/tutorial/tutorial.md
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@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ The usual pattern here is pass down a function from Board to Square that gets ca
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-We split the returned element into multiple lines for readability, and added parens around it so that JavaScript doesn't insert a semicolon after `return` and break our code.
+We split the returned element into multiple lines for readability, and added parentheses around it so that JavaScript doesn't insert a semicolon after `return` and break our code.
 
 Now we're passing down two props from Board to Square: `value` and `onClick`. The latter is a function that Square can call. Let's make the following changes to Square: