diff --git a/src/ch08-02-strings.md b/src/ch08-02-strings.md
index f38803ee3b..e19adc87f4 100644
--- a/src/ch08-02-strings.md
+++ b/src/ch08-02-strings.md
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ index to determine how many valid characters there were.
 Indexing into a string is often a bad idea because it’s not clear what the
 return type of the string-indexing operation should be: a byte value, a
 character, a grapheme cluster, or a string slice. If you really need to use
-indices to create string slices, therefore, Rust asks you to be more specific.
+indices to create string slices, Rust asks you to be more specific.
 
 Rather than indexing using `[]` with a single number, you can use `[]` with a
 range to create a string slice containing particular bytes: