#2003: fix sentence.
diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
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--- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
@@ -1078,7 +1078,7 @@
a single built-in type, called ``instance``.
New-style classes were introduced in Python 2.2 to unify classes and types. A
-new-style class neither more nor less than a user-defined type. If *x* is an
+new-style class is neither more nor less than a user-defined type. If *x* is an
instance of a new-style class, then ``type(x)`` is the same as ``x.__class__``.
The major motivation for introducing new-style classes is to provide a unified