diff --git a/man7/fanotify.7 b/man7/fanotify.7
index 0ccc44499..c0c4c7bd4 100644
--- a/man7/fanotify.7
+++ b/man7/fanotify.7
@@ -231,9 +231,9 @@ or
 was closed.
 .TP
 .B FAN_CLOSE_NOWRITE
-A file that was opened read-only
+A file or directory that was opened read-only
 .RB ( O_RDONLY )
-or a directory was closed.
+was closed.
 .TP
 .B FAN_Q_OVERFLOW
 The event queue exceeded the limit of 16384 entries.