diff --git a/man2/fanotify_init.2 b/man2/fanotify_init.2
index 89cfc0c8f..0a46416ad 100644
--- a/man2/fanotify_init.2
+++ b/man2/fanotify_init.2
@@ -124,11 +124,10 @@ This flag enables the nonblocking flag
 .RB ( O_NONBLOCK )
 for the file descriptor.
 Reading from the file descriptor will not block.
-Instead, if no data is available in a call to
+Instead, if no data is available,
 .BR read (2)
-the error
-.B EAGAIN
-will occur.
+will fail with the error
+.BR EAGAIN .
 .TP
 .B FAN_UNLIMITED_QUEUE
 This flag removes the limit of 16384 events on the size of the event queue.