diff --git a/reference/pdo/pdo/prepare.xml b/reference/pdo/pdo/prepare.xml
index aed592c33f..71fd9507b8 100644
--- a/reference/pdo/pdo/prepare.xml
+++ b/reference/pdo/pdo/prepare.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='iso-8859-1'?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.2 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.3 $ -->
 <refentry xml:id="pdo.prepare" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
  <refnamediv>
   <refname>PDO::prepare</refname>
@@ -84,6 +84,12 @@
    If the database server cannot successfully prepare the statement,
    <function>PDO::prepare</function> returns &false;.
   </para>
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    Emulated prepared statements does not communicate with the database server
+    so <function>PDO::prepare</function> does not check the statement.
+   </para>
+  </note>
  </refsect1>
 
  <refsect1 role="examples">