diff --git a/website/source/docs/provisioners/file.html.md b/website/source/docs/provisioners/file.html.md
index 975d06ad5..948dcb390 100644
--- a/website/source/docs/provisioners/file.html.md
+++ b/website/source/docs/provisioners/file.html.md
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ the covers, rsync may or may not be used.
 
 The behavior when uploading symbolic links depends on the communicator. The
 Docker communicator will preserve symlinks, but all other communicators will
-treat local symlinks as regular files. If you wish the preserve symlinks when
+treat local symlinks as regular files. If you wish to preserve symlinks when
 uploading, it's recommended that you use `tar`. Below is an example of what
 that might look like: