diff --git a/docs/api-guide/relations.md b/docs/api-guide/relations.md
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@@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ See the Django documentation on [reverse relationships][reverse-relationships] f
 
 ## Generic relationships
 
-If you want to serialize a generic foreign key, you need to define a custom field, to determine explicitly how you want serialize the targets of the relationship.
+If you want to serialize a generic foreign key, you need to define a custom field, to determine explicitly how you want to serialize the targets of the relationship.
 
 For example, given the following model for a tag, which has a generic relationship with other arbitrary models: