diff --git a/reference/mongo/mongoregex.xml b/reference/mongo/mongoregex.xml
index a1cfda6b04..547d816cd2 100644
--- a/reference/mongo/mongoregex.xml
+++ b/reference/mongo/mongoregex.xml
@@ -17,55 +17,52 @@
     More unusually, they can be saved to the database and retrieved.
    </para>
    <para>
-    Mongo recognizes six regular expression flags:
+    Regular expressions consist of four parts. First a <literal>/</literal>
+    as starting delimiter, then then pattern, another <literal>/</literal> 
+    and finally a string containing flags.
+   </para>
+   <para>
+    <example>
+     <title>Regular expression pattern</title>
+      <screen>
+<![CDATA[
+/pattern/flags
+]]>
+      </screen>
+    </example>
+   </para>
+   <para>
+    MongoDB recognizes six regular expression flags:
    </para>
    <itemizedlist>
     <listitem>
      <para>
-      <literal>i</literal>
-     </para>
-     <para>
-      Case insensitive
+      <literal>i</literal>: Case insensitive
      </para>
     </listitem>
     <listitem>
      <para>
-      <literal>m</literal>
-     </para>
-     <para>
-      Multiline
+      <literal>m</literal>: Multiline
      </para>
     </listitem>
     <listitem>
      <para>
-      <literal>x</literal>
-     </para>
-     <para>
-      Can contain comments
+      <literal>x</literal>: Can contain comments
      </para>
     </listitem>
     <listitem>
      <para>
-      <literal>l</literal>
-     </para>
-     <para>
-      locale
+      <literal>l</literal>: locale
      </para>
     </listitem>
     <listitem>
      <para>
-      <literal>s</literal>
-     </para>
-     <para>
-      dotall, "." matches everything, including newlines
+      <literal>s</literal>: dotall, "." matches everything, including newlines
      </para>
     </listitem>
     <listitem>
      <para>
-      <literal>u</literal>
-     </para>
-     <para>
-      match unicode
+      <literal>u</literal>: match unicode
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
diff --git a/reference/mongo/mongoregex/construct.xml b/reference/mongo/mongoregex/construct.xml
index 1ea5b5ce10..5f5efa04e3 100644
--- a/reference/mongo/mongoregex/construct.xml
+++ b/reference/mongo/mongoregex/construct.xml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
      </term>
      <listitem>
       <para>
-       Regular expression string of the form /expr/flags.
+       Regular expression string of the form <literal>/expr/flags</literal>.
       </para>
      </listitem>
     </varlistentry>
@@ -48,14 +48,15 @@
   <para>
    <example>
     <title><function>MongoRegex::__construct</function> example</title>
-    <para>This example uses a regular expression to query for all documents with a username field matching a regular expression.</para>
+    <para>This example uses a regular expression to query for all documents
+    with a username field starting (<literal>^</literal>) with an
+    <literal>l</literal> and a vowel (<literal>[aeiouy]</literal>),
+    case-insensitive (<literal>/i</literal>).</para>
     <programlisting role="php">
 <![CDATA[
 <?php
-
-$joe_search = new MongoRegex("/j[o0]e/i");
-$cursor = $collection->find(array("username" => $joe_search));
-
+$luke_search = new MongoRegex("/^l[aeiouy]/i");
+$cursor = $collection->find(array("username" => $luke_search));
 ?>
 ]]>
     </programlisting>