diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-tasks.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-tasks.xml
index 875f136b99..2ed5c13a09 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-tasks.xml
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-tasks.xml
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@
Completes the image generation process.
The do_image_complete task runs after the
OpenEmbedded build system has run the
- do_image
+ do_image
task during which image pre-processing occurs and through
dynamically generated do_image_* tasks the
image is constructed.