diff --git a/man7/fanotify.7 b/man7/fanotify.7
index f21973dff..8f1950c0f 100644
--- a/man7/fanotify.7
+++ b/man7/fanotify.7
@@ -113,9 +113,6 @@ permission for a file access shall be granted.
 For these events, the recipient must write a response which decides whether
 access is granted or not.
 
-Consecutive events for the same filesystem object and originating from the
-same process may be merged into a single event, with the exception that two
-permission events are never merged into one queue entry.
 Queue entries for notification events are removed when the event has been
 read.
 Queue entries for permission events are removed when the permission
@@ -214,6 +211,11 @@ The bit mask in
 signals which events have occurred for a single filesystem object.
 Multiple bits may be set in this mask,
 if more than one event occurred for the monitored filesystem obect.
+In particular,
+consecutive events for the same filesystem object and originating from the
+same process may be merged into a single event, with the exception that two
+permission events are never merged into one queue entry.
+.PP
 The bits that may appear in
 .I mask
 are as follows: