diff --git a/man2/recv.2 b/man2/recv.2
index 3b25e262b..a1768f6ba 100644
--- a/man2/recv.2
+++ b/man2/recv.2
@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ and
 system calls are used to receive messages from a socket.
 They may be used
 to receive data on both connectionless and connection-oriented sockets.
+This page first describes common features of all three system calls,
+and then describes the differences between the calls.
 .PP
 All three routines return the length of the message on successful
 completion.
@@ -88,7 +90,7 @@ An application can used
 or
 .BR epoll (7)
 to determine when more data arrives on a socket.
-.PP
+.SS The flags argument
 The
 .I flags
 argument is formed by ORing one or more of the following values: