diff --git a/Doc/library/string.rst b/Doc/library/string.rst
index 3b8f0058790f78..24c1f7c7780cd5 100644
--- a/Doc/library/string.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/string.rst
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ implementation as the built-in :meth:`~str.format` method.
       field, then the values of *field_name*, *format_spec* and *conversion*
       will be ``None``.
 
-      The value of *field_name* is unmodified user input and auto-numbering of
+      The value of *field_name* is unmodified and auto-numbering of
       non-numbered positional fields is done by :meth:`vformat`.
 
    .. method:: get_field(field_name, args, kwargs)