diff --git a/docs/ref/models/queries.txt b/docs/ref/models/queries.txt
index bf7480ef69..d07156c0b9 100644
--- a/docs/ref/models/queries.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/models/queries.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ without actually having to pull them out of the database into Python memory.
 Instead, Django uses the ``F()`` object to generate a SQL expression that
 describes the required operation at the database level.
 
-This is easiest to understand though an example. Normally, one might do
+This is easiest to understand through an example. Normally, one might do
 something like this::
 
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