diff --git a/docs/configuration.md b/docs/configuration.md
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--- a/docs/configuration.md
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@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ Apart from these, the following properties are also available, and may be useful
     Base directory in which Spark events are logged, if <code>spark.eventLog.enabled</code> is true.
     Within this base directory, Spark creates a sub-directory for each application, and logs the
     events specific to the application in this directory. Users may want to set this to
-    and HDFS directory so that history files can be read by the history server.
+    a unified location like an HDFS directory so history files can be read by the history server.
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