diff --git a/aio/content/tutorial/toh-pt5.md b/aio/content/tutorial/toh-pt5.md
index 7ae7c0b39f..759746cc13 100644
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+++ b/aio/content/tutorial/toh-pt5.md
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ The `<router-outlet>` tells the router where to display routed views.
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 The `RouterOutlet` is one of the router directives that became available to the `AppComponent`
-because `AppModule` imports `AppRoutingModule` which exported `RouterModule`.
+because `AppModule` imports `AppRoutingModule` which exported `RouterModule`. The `ng generate` command you ran at the start of this tutorial added this import because of the `--module=app` flag. If you manually created `app-routing.module.ts` or used a tool other than the CLI to do so, you'll need to import `AppRoutingModule` into `app.module.ts` and add it to the `imports` array of the `NgModule`.
 
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