diff --git a/cucumber-junit-platform-engine/README.md b/cucumber-junit-platform-engine/README.md
index 8200e23655..e9a55b93cf 100644
--- a/cucumber-junit-platform-engine/README.md
+++ b/cucumber-junit-platform-engine/README.md
@@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ As a workaround you can the [Gradle Cucumber-Companion](https://github.com/gradl
 plugin in combination with [Gradle Test Retry](https://github.com/gradle/test-retry-gradle-plugin)
 plugin.
 
-Note: any files written by Cucumber will be overwritten retrying.
+Note: any files written by Cucumber will be overwritten while retrying.
 
 ### Using the JUnit Platform Launcher API