diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/advanced.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/advanced.sgml
index 9ec389dda1b..1586021c2e7 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/advanced.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/advanced.sgml
@@ -629,8 +629,9 @@ CREATE TABLE capitals (
     <firstterm>parent</firstterm>, <classname>cities</classname>.  The
     type of the column <structfield>name</structfield> is
     <type>text</type>, a native <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>
-    type for variable length character strings.  State capitals have
-    an extra column, <structfield>state</>, that shows their state.  In
+    type for variable length character strings.  The
+    <classname>capitals</> table has
+    an extra column, <structfield>state</>, which shows their states.  In
     <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>, a table can inherit from
     zero or more other tables.
    </para>