diff --git a/src/doc/book/closures.md b/src/doc/book/closures.md
index 666d0946ecc..24fcf886ef0 100644
--- a/src/doc/book/closures.md
+++ b/src/doc/book/closures.md
@@ -291,9 +291,9 @@ isn’t interesting. The next part is:
 #   some_closure(1) }
 ```
 
-Because `Fn` is a trait, we can bound our generic with it. In this case, our
-closure takes a `i32` as an argument and returns an `i32`, and so the generic
-bound we use is `Fn(i32) -> i32`.
+Because `Fn` is a trait, we can use it as a bound for our generic type. In
+this case, our closure takes a `i32` as an argument and returns an `i32`, and
+so the generic bound we use is `Fn(i32) -> i32`.
 
 There’s one other key point here: because we’re bounding a generic with a
 trait, this will get monomorphized, and therefore, we’ll be doing static