diff --git a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/http-reference.adoc b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/http-reference.adoc
index 3a20df8edafb9..dace7453e05dc 100644
--- a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/http-reference.adoc
+++ b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/http-reference.adoc
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ quarkus.http.cors.access-control-allow-credentials=true
 
 === Support all origins in devmode
 
-Having to configure required origins when you only start developing a Quarkus application requiring CORS support can be difficult and in such cases you may want to enable all origins in devmode only in order to focus on the actual application development first:
+Having to configure required origins when you start developing a Quarkus application requiring CORS support can be difficult and, in such cases, you may want to allow all origins in dev mode only in order to focus on the actual development first:
 
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