diff --git a/docs/control-structures.rst b/docs/control-structures.rst
index e03d8d6a2..eb337928d 100644
--- a/docs/control-structures.rst
+++ b/docs/control-structures.rst
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Control Structures
 Most of the control structures from C/JavaScript are available in Solidity
 except for ``switch`` and ``goto``. So
 there is: ``if``, ``else``, ``while``, ``for``, ``break``, ``continue``, ``return``, ``? :``, with
-the usual semantics known from C / JavaScript.
+the usual semantics known from C or JavaScript.
 
 Parentheses can *not* be omitted for conditionals, but curly brances can be omitted
 around single-statement bodies.