diff --git a/images/nginx/README.md b/images/nginx/README.md
index 6698b6ad0..01f4cc7fa 100644
--- a/images/nginx/README.md
+++ b/images/nginx/README.md
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ This custom nginx image contains:
 - [brotli](https://github.com/google/brotli) (not supported in s390x)
 
 **How to use this image:**
-This image does provides a default configuration file with no backend servers.
+This image provides a default configuration file with no backend servers.
 
 *Using docker*