diff --git a/docs/tutorial/database.rst b/docs/tutorial/database.rst
index b094909e..df8a6f65 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial/database.rst
+++ b/docs/tutorial/database.rst
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SQLite is convenient because it doesn't require setting up a separate
 database server and is built-in to Python. However, if concurrent
 requests try to write to the database at the same time, they will slow
 down as each write happens sequentially. Small applications won't notice
-this. Once you become big, you may want to switch to a different
+this. Once it becomes big, you may want to switch to a different
 database.
 
 The tutorial doesn't go into detail about SQL. If you are not familiar