diff --git a/R/assert.R b/R/assert.R
index cca1afef..2f4a54a9 100644
--- a/R/assert.R
+++ b/R/assert.R
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 #' assert(checkChoice(x, c("a", "b")), checkDataFrame(x), add = collection)
 #' collection$getMessages()
 #' 
-assert = function(..., combine = "or", .var.name = NULL, add = NULL) {
+assert = function(..., combine = "or", .var.name = NULL, comment = NULL, add = NULL) {
   assertChoice(combine, c("or", "and"))
   assertClass(add, "AssertCollection", .var.name = "add", null.ok = TRUE)
   dots = match.call(expand.dots = FALSE)$...
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ assert = function(..., combine = "or", .var.name = NULL, add = NULL) {
       msgs = sprintf("%s(%s): %s", vapply(dots, function(x) as.character(x)[1L], FUN.VALUE = NA_character_), .var.name, msgs)
       msgs = paste0(c("One of the following must apply:", strwrap(msgs, prefix = " * ")), collapse = "\n")
     }
+    if (!is.null(comment)) {msgs = paste(paste0(msgs, '.'), comment, sep = "\n")}                                          
     mstopOrPush(res = msgs, v_name = .var.name, collection = add)
   } else {
     for (i in seq_along(dots)) {
@@ -53,6 +54,7 @@ assert = function(..., combine = "or", .var.name = NULL, add = NULL) {
       if (!isTRUE(val)) {
         if (is.null(.var.name))
           .var.name = as.character(dots[[i]])[2L]
+        if (!is.null(comment)) {val = paste0(val, '. ', comment)}
         mstopOrPush(res = val, v_name = .var.name, collection = add)
       }
     }
diff --git a/R/makeAssertion.R b/R/makeAssertion.R
index 8f15ba69..915f4cb1 100644
--- a/R/makeAssertion.R
+++ b/R/makeAssertion.R
@@ -76,10 +76,12 @@ makeAssertionFunction = function(check.fun, c.fun = NULL, use.namespace = TRUE,
   }
 
   if (use.namespace) {
-    fun.args = c(fun.args,  list(.var.name = bquote(checkmate::vname(.(as.name(x.name)))), add = NULL))
+    fun.args = c(fun.args,  list(.var.name = bquote(checkmate::vname(.(as.name(x.name)))), comment = NULL, add = NULL))
+    body = paste0(body, "; if (!isTRUE(res) & !is.null(comment)) {res = paste0(res, '. ', comment) }")
     body = paste0(body, "; checkmate::makeAssertion")
   } else {
-    fun.args = c(fun.args, list(.var.name = bquote(vname(.(as.name(x.name)))), add = NULL))
+    fun.args = c(fun.args, list(.var.name = bquote(vname(.(as.name(x.name)))), comment = NULL, add = NULL))
+    body = paste0(body, "; if (!isTRUE(res) & !is.null(comment)) {res = paste0(res, '. ', comment) }")
     body = paste0(body, "; makeAssertion")
   }
   body = paste0(body, sprintf("(%s, res, .var.name, add)", x.name))
diff --git a/man-roxygen/assert.R b/man-roxygen/assert.R
index 9edd8e46..2229b2c1 100644
--- a/man-roxygen/assert.R
+++ b/man-roxygen/assert.R
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 #' @param .var.name [\code{character(1)}]\cr
 #'  Name of the checked object to print in assertions. Defaults to
 #'  the heuristic implemented in \code{\link{vname}}.
+#' @param comment [\code{character(1)}]\cr
+#'  Extra information to be appended to the standard error message in assertions.
 #' @param add [\code{AssertCollection}]\cr
 #'  Collection to store assertion messages. See \code{\link{AssertCollection}}.