diff --git a/share/man/man9/taskqueue.9 b/share/man/man9/taskqueue.9
index 7d3545889828..ccb194f01234 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/taskqueue.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/taskqueue.9
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ or
 .Va taskqueue_thread
 ).
 .Pp
-This the software interrupt queues can be used,
+The software interrupt queues can be used,
 for instance, for implementing interrupt handlers which must perform a
 significant amount of processing in the handler.
 The hardware interrupt handler would perform minimal processing of the