diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst b/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst
index fad8746014646c..589263edd3571e 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ at a more abstract level.  The :keyword:`!pass` is silently ignored::
 :keyword:`!match` Statements
 ============================
 
-A match statement takes an expression and compares its value to successive
+A :keyword:`match` statement takes an expression and compares its value to successive
 patterns given as one or more case blocks.  This is superficially
 similar to a switch statement in C, Java or JavaScript (and many
 other languages), but it can also extract components (sequence elements or