diff --git a/docs/source/trainer.rst b/docs/source/trainer.rst
index a11eaceee10c9..563234757995c 100644
--- a/docs/source/trainer.rst
+++ b/docs/source/trainer.rst
@@ -580,9 +580,18 @@ You can override the default behavior by initializing the :class:`~pytorch_light
 callback, and adding it to the :paramref:`~pytorch_lightning.trainer.trainer.Trainer.callbacks` list.
 See :ref:`Saving and Loading Weights <weights_loading>` for how to customize checkpointing.
 
+.. testcode::
+
+    from pytorch_lightning.callbacks import ModelCheckpoint
+    # Init ModelCheckpoint callback, monitoring 'val_loss'
+    checkpoint_callback = ModelCheckpoint(monitor='val_loss')
+
+    # Add your callback to the callbacks list
+    trainer = Trainer(callbacks=[checkpoint_callback])
+
 
 .. warning:: Passing a ModelCheckpoint instance to this argument is deprecated since
-    v1.1.0 and will be unsupported from v1.3.0.
+    v1.1 and will be unsupported from v1.3. Use `callbacks` argument instead.
 
 
 default_root_dir
diff --git a/pytorch_lightning/trainer/connectors/callback_connector.py b/pytorch_lightning/trainer/connectors/callback_connector.py
index c9ef4ae32be77..0f642d26a1157 100644
--- a/pytorch_lightning/trainer/connectors/callback_connector.py
+++ b/pytorch_lightning/trainer/connectors/callback_connector.py
@@ -59,7 +59,8 @@ def configure_checkpoint_callbacks(self, checkpoint_callback: Union[ModelCheckpo
             # TODO: deprecated, remove this block in v1.3.0
             rank_zero_warn(
                 "Passing a ModelCheckpoint instance to Trainer(checkpoint_callbacks=...)"
-                " is deprecated since v1.1 and will no longer be supported in v1.3.",
+                " is deprecated since v1.1 and will no longer be supported in v1.3."
+                " Use `callbacks` argument instead.",
                 DeprecationWarning
             )
             self.trainer.callbacks.append(checkpoint_callback)
diff --git a/pytorch_lightning/trainer/trainer.py b/pytorch_lightning/trainer/trainer.py
index 323a758106a32..92f34955c7fce 100644
--- a/pytorch_lightning/trainer/trainer.py
+++ b/pytorch_lightning/trainer/trainer.py
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ def __init__(
                 :paramref:`~pytorch_lightning.trainer.trainer.Trainer.callbacks`. Default: ``True``.
 
                 .. warning:: Passing a ModelCheckpoint instance to this argument is deprecated since
-                    v1.1.0 and will be unsupported from v1.3.0.
+                    v1.1 and will be unsupported from v1.3. Use `callbacks` argument instead.
 
             check_val_every_n_epoch: Check val every n train epochs.