diff --git a/man7/cgroups.7 b/man7/cgroups.7
index 4477c1477..aa3127a05 100644
--- a/man7/cgroups.7
+++ b/man7/cgroups.7
@@ -971,16 +971,15 @@ to automatically become delegation boundaries.
 More specifically,
 the following restrictions apply for processes inside the cgroup namespace:
 .IP * 3
-Writes to controller interface files in the root directory
+Writes to controller interface files in the root directory of the namespace
 will fail with the error
 .BR EPERM .
 Processes inside the cgroup namespace can still write to delegatable
-files such as
+files in the root directory of the cgroup namespace such as
 .IR cgroup.procs
 and
 .IR cgroup.subtree_control ,
-and can create subhierarchy underneath the root directory of
-the cgroup namespace.
+and can create subhierarchy underneath the root directory.
 .IP *
 Attempts to migrate processes across the namespace boundary are denied
 (with the error