diff --git a/Doc/faq/programming.rst b/Doc/faq/programming.rst
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@@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ How can my code discover the name of an object?
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 Generally speaking, it can't, because objects don't really have names.
-Essentially, assignment always binds a name to a value; The same is true of
+Essentially, assignment always binds a name to a value; the same is true of
 ``def`` and ``class`` statements, but in that case the value is a
 callable. Consider the following code::