diff --git a/utils/vim/README b/utils/vim/README
index d999788809c..bca25bfe612 100644
--- a/utils/vim/README
+++ b/utils/vim/README
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ These are syntax highlighting files for the VIM editor. Included are:
 
 If you prefer, instead of making copies you can make symlinks from
 ~/.vim/syntax/... to the syntax files in your LLVM source tree. Apparently
-did not work with older versions of vim however, so if this doesn't work
-you may need to make actual copies of the files.
+this did not work with older versions of vim however, so if this doesn't
+work you may need to make actual copies of the files.
 
 Another option, if you do not already have a ~/.vim/syntax directory, is
 to symlink ~/.vim/syntax itself to llvm/utils/vim .