abstractlet w be a non-empty subset of a free group. the automorphism of a group g is said to be a marginal automorphism, if for all x in g,x^−1alpha(x) in w^*(g), where w^*(g) is the marginal subgroup of g.in this paper, we give necessary and sufficient condition for a purelynon-abelian p-group g, such that the set of all marginal automorphismsof g forms an elementary abelian p-group.