diff --git a/rest/request.go b/rest/request.go
index 3a1560df..bfc6ac64 100644
--- a/rest/request.go
+++ b/rest/request.go
@@ -710,7 +710,7 @@ func updateURLMetrics(ctx context.Context, req *Request, resp *http.Response, er
 	if err != nil {
 		metrics.RequestResult.Increment(ctx, "<error>", req.verb, url)
 	} else {
-		//Metrics for failure codes
+		// Metrics for failure codes
 		metrics.RequestResult.Increment(ctx, strconv.Itoa(resp.StatusCode), req.verb, url)
 	}
 }
@@ -823,7 +823,7 @@ func (r *Request) newHTTPRequest(ctx context.Context) (*http.Request, error) {
 // fn at most once. It will return an error if a problem occurred prior to connecting to the
 // server - the provided function is responsible for handling server errors.
 func (r *Request) request(ctx context.Context, fn func(*http.Request, *http.Response)) error {
-	//Metrics for total request latency
+	// Metrics for total request latency
 	start := time.Now()
 	defer func() {
 		metrics.RequestLatency.Observe(ctx, r.verb, *r.URL(), time.Since(start))
@@ -892,7 +892,7 @@ func (r *Request) request(ctx context.Context, fn func(*http.Request, *http.Resp
 		done := func() bool {
 			defer readAndCloseResponseBody(resp)
 
-			// if the the server returns an error in err, the response will be nil.
+			// if the server returns an error in err, the response will be nil.
 			f := func(req *http.Request, resp *http.Response) {
 				if resp == nil {
 					return
diff --git a/rest/request_test.go b/rest/request_test.go
index 01e18251..09f731f2 100644
--- a/rest/request_test.go
+++ b/rest/request_test.go
@@ -2564,7 +2564,7 @@ func TestRequestWatchWithRetry(t *testing.T) {
 	testRequestWithRetry(t, "Watch", func(ctx context.Context, r *Request) {
 		w, err := r.Watch(ctx)
 		if err == nil {
-			// in this test the the response body returned by the server is always empty,
+			// in this test the response body returned by the server is always empty,
 			// this will cause StreamWatcher.receive() to:
 			// - return an io.EOF to indicate that the watch closed normally and
 			// - then close the io.Reader