diff --git a/man2/accept.2 b/man2/accept.2
index eac7d0f94..424254a98 100644
--- a/man2/accept.2
+++ b/man2/accept.2
@@ -51,7 +51,9 @@ system call is used with connection-based socket types
 .RB ( SOCK_STREAM ,
 .BR SOCK_SEQPACKET ).
 It extracts the first connection request on the queue of pending
-connections, creates a new connected socket, and returns a new file
+connections for the listening socket,
+.IR sockfd ,
+creates a new connected socket, and returns a new file
 descriptor referring to that socket.
 The newly created socket is not in the listening state.
 The original socket