diff --git a/railties/guides/source/active_record_validations_callbacks.textile b/railties/guides/source/active_record_validations_callbacks.textile
index fddd715feba89ff329893bb2912d3f3b90e62519..940ee93cc167c2ef235bf2f4506a3b375f39c989 100644
--- a/railties/guides/source/active_record_validations_callbacks.textile
+++ b/railties/guides/source/active_record_validations_callbacks.textile
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ end
 
 h4(#validations_overview-errors). +errors[]+
 
-To verify whether or not a particular attribute of an object is valid, you can use +errors[:attribute]+ that returns an array with all attribute errors, when there are no errors on the specified attribute, an empty array is returned.
+To verify whether or not a particular attribute of an object is valid, you can use +errors[:attribute]+. It returns an array of all the errors for +:attribue+. If there are no errors on the specified attribute, an empty array is returned.
 
 This method is only useful _after_ validations have been run, because it only inspects the errors collection and does not trigger validations itself. It's different from the +ActiveRecord::Base#invalid?+ method explained above because it doesn't verify the validity of the object as a whole. It only checks to see whether there are errors found on an individual attribute of the object.