diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/advanced.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/advanced.sgml
index f6c4627c3e0..d77312600f7 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/advanced.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/advanced.sgml
@@ -628,8 +628,9 @@ CREATE TABLE capitals (
parent, cities. The
type of the column name is
text, a native PostgreSQL
- type for variable length character strings. State capitals have
- an extra column, state, that shows their state. In
+ type for variable length character strings. The
+ capitals table has
+ an extra column, state, which shows their states. In
PostgreSQL, a table can inherit from
zero or more other tables.