diff --git a/documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-advanced.xml b/documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-advanced.xml
index 12d3d7c8ec..879d3f285a 100644
--- a/documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-advanced.xml
+++ b/documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-advanced.xml
@@ -849,17 +849,14 @@ The description file can include multiple patch statements, one per patch.
         <title>Features</title>
 
         <para>
-            Features are a combination of configuration fragments and patches.
-            Or, more accurately, configuration fragments and patches are
-            simple forms of a feature, which is a more complex metadata type.
-            In addition to the <filename>kconf</filename> and
-            <filename>patch</filename> commands, features often aggregate
-            description files with the <filename>include</filename> command.
+            Features are complex kernel Metadata types that consist
+            of configuration fragments (<filename>kconf</filename>), patches
+            (<filename>patch</filename>), and possibly other feature
+            description files (<filename>include</filename>).
         </para>
 
         <para>
-            A hypothetical example of a feature description file might look
-            like the following:
+            Here is an example that shows a feature description file:
             <literallayout class='monospaced'>
      features/myfeature.scc
         define KFEATURE_DESCRIPTION "Enable myfeature"
@@ -870,12 +867,15 @@ The description file can include multiple patch statements, one per patch.
         include cfg/myfeature_dependency.scc
         kconf non-hardware myfeature.cfg
             </literallayout>
+            This example shows how the <filename>patch</filename> and
+            <filename>kconf</filename> commands are used as well as
+            how an additional feature description file is included.
         </para>
 
         <para>
-            Features are typically less granular than configuration
-            fragments and are more likely than configurations fragments
-            and patches to be the types of things you will want to specify
+            Typically, features are less granular than configuration
+            fragments and are more likely than configuration fragments
+            and patches to be the types of things you want to specify
             in the <filename>KERNEL_FEATURES</filename> variable of the
             Linux kernel recipe.
             See the "<link linkend='using-kernel-metadata-in-a-recipe'>Using Kernel Metadata in a Recipe</link>"