all: use the indefinite article an in comments

src/archive/zip/reader_test.go

@@ -1822,7 +1822,7 @@ func TestBaseOffsetPlusOverflow(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}()
 	// Previously, this would trigger a panic as we attempt to read from
-	// a io.SectionReader which would access a slice at a negative offset
+	// an io.SectionReader which would access a slice at a negative offset
 	// as the section reader offset & size were < 0.
 	NewReader(bytes.NewReader(data), int64(len(data))+1875)
 }

src/cmd/go/internal/cache/cache.go

@@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ func (c *DiskCache) putIndexEntry(id ActionID, out OutputID, size int64, allowVe
 	return nil
 }
 
-// noVerifyReadSeeker is a io.ReadSeeker wrapper sentinel type
+// noVerifyReadSeeker is an io.ReadSeeker wrapper sentinel type
 // that says that Cache.Put should skip the verify check
 // (from GODEBUG=goverifycache=1).
 type noVerifyReadSeeker struct {

src/cmd/go/internal/vcs/vcs.go

@@ -1443,7 +1443,7 @@ type metaImport struct {
 	Prefix, VCS, RepoRoot string
 }
 
-// A ImportMismatchError is returned where metaImport/s are present
+// An ImportMismatchError is returned where metaImport/s are present
 // but none match our import path.
 type ImportMismatchError struct {
 	importPath string

src/crypto/tls/ticket.go

@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ type SessionState struct {
 	// To allow different layers in a protocol stack to share this field,
 	// applications must only append to it, not replace it, and must use entries
 	// that can be recognized even if out of order (for example, by starting
-	// with a id and version prefix).
+	// with an id and version prefix).
 	Extra [][]byte
 
 	// EarlyData indicates whether the ticket can be used for 0-RTT in a QUIC

src/crypto/x509/verify_test.go

@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ var verifyTests = []verifyTest{
 		},
 	},
 	{
-		// When there are two parents, one with a incorrect subject but matching SKID
+		// When there are two parents, one with an incorrect subject but matching SKID
 		// and one with a correct subject but missing SKID, the latter should be
 		// considered as a possible parent.
 		leaf:        leafMatchingAKIDMatchingIssuer,

src/crypto/x509/x509_test.go

@@ -3652,7 +3652,7 @@ func TestDisableSHA1ForCertOnly(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	// This is an unrelated OCSP response, which will fail signature verification
-	// but shouldn't return a InsecureAlgorithmError, since SHA1 should be allowed
+	// but shouldn't return an InsecureAlgorithmError, since SHA1 should be allowed
 	// for OCSP.
 	ocspTBSHex := "30819fa2160414884451ff502a695e2d88f421bad90cf2cecbea7c180f32303133303631383037323434335a30743072304a300906052b0e03021a0500041448b60d38238df8456e4ee5843ea394111802979f0414884451ff502a695e2d88f421bad90cf2cecbea7c021100f78b13b946fc9635d8ab49de9d2148218000180f32303133303631383037323434335aa011180f32303133303632323037323434335a"
 	ocspTBS, err := hex.DecodeString(ocspTBSHex)

src/database/sql/convert_test.go

@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ func conversionTests() []conversionTest {
 		{s: "256", d: &scanuint8, wanterr: "converting driver.Value type string (\"256\") to a uint8: value out of range"},
 		{s: "256", d: &scanuint16, wantuint: 256},
 		{s: "-1", d: &scanint, wantint: -1},
-		{s: "foo", d: &scanint, wanterr: "converting driver.Value type string (\"foo\") to a int: invalid syntax"},
+		{s: "foo", d: &scanint, wanterr: "converting driver.Value type string (\"foo\") to an int: invalid syntax"},
 
 		// int64 to smaller integers
 		{s: int64(5), d: &scanuint8, wantuint: 5},

src/image/gif/reader_test.go

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ const (
 	trailerStr = "\x3b"
 )
 
-// lzw.NewReader wants a io.ByteReader, this ensures we're compatible.
+// lzw.NewReader wants an io.ByteReader, this ensures we're compatible.
 var _ io.ByteReader = (*blockReader)(nil)
 
 // lzwEncode returns an LZW encoding (with 2-bit literals) of in.

src/os/os_windows_test.go

@@ -581,9 +581,9 @@ func TestStatLxSymLink(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	if m := fi.Mode(); m&fs.ModeSymlink != 0 {
 		// This can happen depending on newer WSL versions when running as admin or in developer mode.
-		t.Skip("skipping: WSL created reparse tag IO_REPARSE_TAG_SYMLINK instead of a IO_REPARSE_TAG_LX_SYMLINK")
+		t.Skip("skipping: WSL created reparse tag IO_REPARSE_TAG_SYMLINK instead of an IO_REPARSE_TAG_LX_SYMLINK")
 	}
-	// Stat'ing a IO_REPARSE_TAG_LX_SYMLINK from outside WSL always return ERROR_CANT_ACCESS_FILE.
+	// Stat'ing an IO_REPARSE_TAG_LX_SYMLINK from outside WSL always return ERROR_CANT_ACCESS_FILE.
 	// We check this condition to validate that os.Stat has tried to follow the link.
 	_, err = os.Stat(link)
 	const ERROR_CANT_ACCESS_FILE = syscall.Errno(1920)

src/os/signal/signal_test.go

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ func init() {
 		// Older linux kernels seem to have some hiccups delivering the signal
 		// in a timely manner on ppc64 and ppc64le. When running on a
 		// ppc64le/ubuntu 16.04/linux 4.4 host the time can vary quite
-		// substantially even on a idle system. 5 seconds is twice any value
+		// substantially even on an idle system. 5 seconds is twice any value
 		// observed when running 10000 tests on such a system.
 		settleTime = 5 * time.Second
 	} else if s := os.Getenv("GO_TEST_TIMEOUT_SCALE"); s != "" {

test/typeparam/boundmethod.go

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 // license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
 // This test illustrates how a type bound method (String below) can be implemented
-// either by a concrete type (myint below) or a instantiated generic type
+// either by a concrete type (myint below) or an instantiated generic type
 // (StringInt[myint] below).
 
 package main