diff --git a/t/README b/t/README
index 89512e23d4..ab386c3681 100644
--- a/t/README
+++ b/t/README
@@ -611,9 +611,11 @@ library for your script to use.
 
  - test_have_prereq <prereq>
 
-   Check if we have a prerequisite previously set with
-   test_set_prereq. The most common use of this directly is to skip
-   all the tests if we don't have some essential prerequisite:
+   Check if we have a prerequisite previously set with test_set_prereq.
+   The most common way to use this explicitly (as opposed to the
+   implicit use when an argument is passed to test_expect_*) is to skip
+   all the tests at the start of the test script if we don't have some
+   essential prerequisite:
 
 	if ! test_have_prereq PERL
 	then