diff --git a/src/doc/trpl/the-stack-and-the-heap.md b/src/doc/trpl/the-stack-and-the-heap.md
index e7e98c5828c10..6cf8e45ae1fda 100644
--- a/src/doc/trpl/the-stack-and-the-heap.md
+++ b/src/doc/trpl/the-stack-and-the-heap.md
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ local variables and some other information. This is called a ‘stack frame’,
 for the purpose of this tutorial, we’re going to ignore the extra information
 and just consider the local variables we’re allocating. So in this case, when
 `main()` is run, we’ll allocate a single 32-bit integer for our stack frame.
-This is automatically handled for you, as you can see, we didn’t have to write
+This is automatically handled for you, as you can see; we didn’t have to write
 any special Rust code or anything.
 
 When the function is over, its stack frame gets deallocated. This happens