diff --git a/source/reference/operator/projection/elemMatch.txt b/source/reference/operator/projection/elemMatch.txt
index a3c83eca506..642ff65a157 100644
--- a/source/reference/operator/projection/elemMatch.txt
+++ b/source/reference/operator/projection/elemMatch.txt
@@ -123,9 +123,8 @@ The operation returns the three documents that have ``zipcode`` equal to ``63109
    { "_id" : 3 }
    { "_id" : 4, "students" : [ { "name" : "ruth", "school" : 102, "age" : 16 } ] }
 
-Documents with ``_id`` equal to ``3`` and ``_id`` equal to ``4``
-do not contain the ``students`` field since no array element matched
-the :projection:`$elemMatch` criteria.
+The document with ``_id`` equal to ``3`` does not contain the ``students`` field
+since no array element matched the :projection:`$elemMatch` criteria.
 
 :projection:`$elemMatch` with :method:`~cursor.sort()`
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