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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions source/includes/fact-positional-projection-vs-elemmatch.rst
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Both the :projection:`$` operator and the :projection:`$elemMatch` operator project
a subset of elements from an array based on a condition.
the **first** matching element from an array based on a condition.

The :projection:`$` operator projects the array elements based on some condition
from the query statement.
The :projection:`$` operator projects the first matching array element from each
document in a collection based on some condition from the query statement.

The :projection:`$elemMatch` projection operator takes an explicit condition
argument. This allows you to project based on a condition not in the query, or
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions source/reference/operator/projection/positional.txt
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Expand Up @@ -84,8 +84,8 @@ Under these requirements, the following query is **incorrect**:
{ "<array>.$": 1 } )

To specify criteria on multiple fields of documents inside that array, use the
:query:`$elemMatch` query operator. The following query will return any
embedded documents inside a ``grades`` array that have a ``mean`` of greater than 70
:query:`$elemMatch` query operator. The following query returns the first
document inside a ``grades`` array that has a ``mean`` of greater than 70
and a ``grade`` of greater than 90.

.. code-block:: javascript
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