diff --git a/multi-node/hadoop/README.md b/multi-node/hadoop/README.md
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@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Distributed XGBoost: Hadoop Version
 Before you run the script
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 * Make sure you have set up the hadoop environment.
-* If you want to only use single machine multi-threading, tryout single machine examples in the [demo folder](../../demo).
+* If you want to only use single machine multi-threading, try single machine examples in the [demo folder](../../demo).
 * Build: run ```bash build.sh``` in the root folder, it will automatically download rabit and build xgboost.
 * Check whether the environment variable $HADOOP_HOME exists (e.g. run ```echo $HADOOP_HOME```). If not, please set up hadoop-streaming.jar path in rabit_hadoop.py.