diff --git a/manual/Tasks/symlink.html b/manual/Tasks/symlink.html
index 6c93d051c..f8bce65c3 100644
--- a/manual/Tasks/symlink.html
+++ b/manual/Tasks/symlink.html
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ case.</p>
 in <samp>subdir</samp>:</p>
 <pre>&lt;symlink link="${dir.top}/foo" resource="${dir.top}/subdir/bar.foo"/&gt;</pre>
 
-<p>Record all links in <samp>subdir</samp> and it's descendants in files
+<p>Record all links in <samp>subdir</samp> and its descendants in files
 named <samp>dir.links</samp></p>
 <pre>
 &lt;symlink action="record" linkfilename="dir.links"&gt;