diff --git a/config.example.toml b/config.example.toml
index 61655dad63857..fb45493ec4a15 100644
--- a/config.example.toml
+++ b/config.example.toml
@@ -389,8 +389,8 @@
 # a Nix toolchain on non-NixOS distributions.
 #patch-binaries-for-nix = false
 
-# Collect information and statistics about the current build and writes it to
-# disk. Enabling this or not has no impact on the resulting build output. The
+# Collect information and statistics about the current build, and write it to
+# disk. Enabling this has no impact on the resulting build output. The
 # schema of the file generated by the build metrics feature is unstable, and
 # this is not intended to be used during local development.
 #metrics = false