diff --git a/src/doc/trpl/ownership.md b/src/doc/trpl/ownership.md
index 8e5a757e1bda7..cec85f9facf8f 100644
--- a/src/doc/trpl/ownership.md
+++ b/src/doc/trpl/ownership.md
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ To fix this, we have to make sure that step four never happens after step
 three. The ownership system in Rust does this through a concept called
 *lifetimes*, which describe the scope that a reference is valid for.
 
-Let's look at that function which borrows an `i32` again:
+Remember the function that borrowed an `i32`? Let's look at it again.
 
 ```rust
 fn add_one(num: &i32) -> i32 {