diff --git a/lang/en_utf8/help/coursestartdate.html b/lang/en_utf8/help/coursestartdate.html
index 26e302b2b5f..0d5952745aa 100644
--- a/lang/en_utf8/help/coursestartdate.html
+++ b/lang/en_utf8/help/coursestartdate.html
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 <p>This setting will not affect courses using the 
    'social' or 'topics' formats.</p>
 
-<p>However, one place this setting will be affect is 
+<p>However, one place this setting will affect is 
    the display of logs, which use this date as the earliest
    possible date you can display.</p>