diff --git a/src/guide/components/slots.md b/src/guide/components/slots.md
index d3dfe83771..b50855cdf6 100644
--- a/src/guide/components/slots.md
+++ b/src/guide/components/slots.md
@@ -298,12 +298,12 @@ function BaseLayout(slots) {
 
 ## Conditional Slots {#conditional-slots}
 
-Sometimes you want to render something based on whether or not a slot is present. 
+Sometimes you want to render something based on whether or not content has been passed to a slot. 
 
 You can use the [$slots](/api/component-instance.html#slots) property in combination with a [v-if](/guide/essentials/conditional.html#v-if) to achieve this.
 
 In the example below we define a Card component with three conditional slots: `header`, `footer` and the `default` one.
-When the header / footer / default is present we want to wrap them to provide additional styling:
+When content for the header / footer / default is present, we want to wrap it to provide additional styling:
 
 ```vue-html
 <template>