diff --git a/blog/content/second-edition/posts/05-cpu-exceptions/index.md b/blog/content/second-edition/posts/05-cpu-exceptions/index.md
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@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ Note how this solution requires no `unsafe` blocks. The `lazy_static!` macro doe
 
 ### Running it
 
-The last step for making exceptions work in our kernel it to call the `init_idt` function from our `main.rs`. Instead of calling it directly, we introduce a general `init` function in our `lib.rs`:
+The last step for making exceptions work in our kernel is to call the `init_idt` function from our `main.rs`. Instead of calling it directly, we introduce a general `init` function in our `lib.rs`:
 
 ```rust
 // in src/lib.rs