diff --git a/docs/basic-features/data-fetching.md b/docs/basic-features/data-fetching.md
index d7d2caaa5c1b..1349d90aa409 100644
--- a/docs/basic-features/data-fetching.md
+++ b/docs/basic-features/data-fetching.md
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ Files can be read directly from the filesystem in `getStaticProps`.
 
 In order to do so you have to get the full path to a file.
 
-Since Next.js compiles your code into a separate directory you can't use `__dirname` as the path it will return will be different from the pages directory.
+Since Next.js compiles your code into a separate directory you can't use `__dirname` as the path. It will be different from the pages directory.
 
 Instead you can use `process.cwd()` which gives you the directory where Next.js is being executed.