diff --git a/pages/querying/subquery-expressions.mdx b/pages/querying/subquery-expressions.mdx
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--- a/pages/querying/subquery-expressions.mdx
+++ b/pages/querying/subquery-expressions.mdx
@@ -402,9 +402,8 @@ Output:
 ### The bare pattern shorthand
 
 `EXISTS` and `COUNT` accept a bare pattern in place of a full body, which is a
-shorter way to write a check or a count over one pattern. The pattern cannot
-introduce names of its own — a variable already bound outside may appear in it,
-and acts as a join:
+shorter way to write a check or a count over one pattern. A variable already
+bound outside may appear in it, and acts as a join:
 
 ```cypher
 MATCH (p:Person)
@@ -427,10 +426,32 @@ Output:
 +---------+-------+---------+
 ```
 
-The shorthand holds a pattern and nothing else, so a filter or any other clause
-needs the `MATCH` form — `COUNT { MATCH (p)-[r:KNOWS]->() WHERE r.since < 2015 }`.
-`COLLECT` has no shorthand, since a bare pattern returns no column for it to
-gather.
+The shorthand takes everything a `MATCH` pattern takes: a variable it declares
+itself, a trailing `WHERE`, several patterns separated by commas, a named path,
+and a pattern holding only a node.
+
+```cypher
+MATCH (p:Person)
+RETURN p.name AS name,
+       COUNT { (p)-[r:KNOWS]->(f:Person) WHERE r.since < 2015 } AS early
+ORDER BY name;
+```
+
+Output:
+
+```nocopy
++---------+-------+
+| name    | early |
++---------+-------+
+| "Alice" | 1     |
+| "Bob"   | 0     |
+| "Carol" | 0     |
+| "Dave"  | 0     |
++---------+-------+
+```
+
+Any other clause still needs the `MATCH` form. `COLLECT` has no shorthand, since
+a bare pattern returns no column for it to gather.
 
 ### Correlation with the enclosing query