diff --git a/packages/documentation/copy/en/handbook-v2/Basics.md b/packages/documentation/copy/en/handbook-v2/Basics.md
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+++ b/packages/documentation/copy/en/handbook-v2/Basics.md
@@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ That's a feature, and it's best not to add annotations when the type system woul
 
 ## Erased Types
 
-Let's take a look at what happens when we compile the above function `greet` with `tsc` to output JavaScript:
+Let's take a look at what happens when we compile the above function `greet` with `tsc --target es5` to output JavaScript:
 
 ```ts twoslash
 // @showEmit