diff --git a/website/docs/cli/commands/refresh.mdx b/website/docs/cli/commands/refresh.mdx
index 898457fd8..398e53b61 100644
--- a/website/docs/cli/commands/refresh.mdx
+++ b/website/docs/cli/commands/refresh.mdx
@@ -44,10 +44,10 @@ Consequently, it supports all of the same options as
 plan file, it doesn't allow selecting a planning mode other than "refresh only",
 and `-auto-approve` is always enabled.
 
-Automatically applying the effect of a refresh is risky, because if you have
-misconfigured credentials for one or more providers then the provider may
+Automatically applying the effect of a refresh is risky. If you have
+misconfigured credentials for one or more providers, Terraform may
 be misled into thinking that all of the managed objects have been deleted,
-and thus remove all of the tracked objects without any confirmation prompt.
+causing it to remove all of the tracked objects without any confirmation prompt.
 
 Instead, we recommend using the following command in order to get the same
 effect but with the opportunity to review the changes that Terraform has