diff --git a/references/classification/README.md b/references/classification/README.md
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@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ the following parameters:
 ### AlexNet and VGG
 
 Since `AlexNet` and the original `VGG` architectures do not include batch 
-normalization, the default initial learning rate `--lr 0.1` is to high.
+normalization, the default initial learning rate `--lr 0.1` is too high.
 
 ```
 torchrun --nproc_per_node=8 train.py\