diff --git a/tap-core-person-schema-create-json-representation.adoc b/tap-core-person-schema-create-json-representation.adoc
index abeb09c..7a15619 100644
--- a/tap-core-person-schema-create-json-representation.adoc
+++ b/tap-core-person-schema-create-json-representation.adoc
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ The TAP Schema JSON Representation describes how to represent TAP
 attributes in JSON. For compactness, this document uses the term "TS-JSON" to
 refer to the JSON Representation of the TAP Schema.
 
-TS-JSON is represented as a JSON object, that is a pair of curly braces
+TS-JSON is represented as a valid JSON object, that is a pair of curly braces
 surrounding zero or more JSON members. It is possible for (and perhaps even
 expected that) a TS-JSON object to itself be embedded in a broader JSON
 document, for example for message transport purposes.