diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.0.0.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.0.0.rst
index 5e16cee1de89c..fa1669b1f3343 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.0.0.rst
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.0.0.rst
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Previously, strings were typically stored in object-dtype NumPy arrays.
 
 .. warning::
 
-   ``StringDtype`` and is currently considered experimental. The implementation
+   ``StringDtype`` is currently considered experimental. The implementation
    and parts of the API may change without warning.
 
 The text extension type solves several issues with object-dtype NumPy arrays: