diff --git a/book/03-git-branching/sections/nutshell.asc b/book/03-git-branching/sections/nutshell.asc
index 29eb49792..88621bbba 100644
--- a/book/03-git-branching/sections/nutshell.asc
+++ b/book/03-git-branching/sections/nutshell.asc
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ $ git add README test.rb LICENSE
 $ git commit -m 'The initial commit of my project'
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-When you create the commit by running `git commit`, Git checksums each subdirectory (in this case, just the root project directory) and stores those tree objects in the Git repository.
+When you create the commit by running `git commit`, Git checksums each subdirectory (in this case, just the root project directory) and stores them as a tree object in the Git repository.
 Git then creates a commit object that has the metadata and a pointer to the root project tree so it can re-create that snapshot when needed.(((git commands, commit)))
 
 Your Git repository now contains five objects: three _blobs_ (each representing the contents of one of the three files), one _tree_ that lists the contents of the directory and specifies which file names are stored as which blobs, and one _commit_ with the pointer to that root tree and all the commit metadata.