diff --git a/language/oop5/decon.xml b/language/oop5/decon.xml
index 9021d4ef43..f85effc5ae 100644
--- a/language/oop5/decon.xml
+++ b/language/oop5/decon.xml
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ $obj = new OtherSubClass();
    <para>
     For backwards compatibility with PHP 3 and 4, if PHP cannot find a 
     <link linkend="object.construct">__construct()</link> function for a given
-    class, and the class did not inherit one from a parent class, it will
+    class, it will
     search for the old-style constructor function, by the name of the class.
     Effectively, it means that the only case that would have compatibility
     issues is if the class had a method named