diff --git a/website/docs/language/state/purpose.mdx b/website/docs/language/state/purpose.mdx
index 681e996385..c43b4dd5d9 100644
--- a/website/docs/language/state/purpose.mdx
+++ b/website/docs/language/state/purpose.mdx
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ of dependencies within the state. Now Terraform can still determine the correct
 order for destruction from the state when you delete one or more items from
 the configuration.
 
-One way to avoid this would be for Terraform to know a required ordering
+Another way would be for Terraform to know a required ordering
 between resource types. For example, Terraform could know that servers must be
 deleted before the subnets they are a part of. The complexity for this approach
 quickly explodes, however: in addition to Terraform having to understand the