diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/closer-look.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/closer-look.xml
index 7aae2e27a9..825409f5a7 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/closer-look.xml
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/closer-look.xml
@@ -1243,8 +1243,8 @@
                     stamp file, not just tasks that can be accelerated through
                     the sstate cache.</para>
                     <para>However, you should realize that stamp files only
-                    serve as a marker that some work has been done and these
-                    files do not record task output.
+                    serve as a marker that some work has been done and that
+                    these files do not record task output.
                     The actual task output would usually be somewhere in
                     <link linkend='var-TMPDIR'><filename>TMPDIR</filename></link>
                     (e.g. in some recipe's