diff --git a/src/strings/strings.go b/src/strings/strings.go
index 1efd00d5f09c8a..80cea67d626d2e 100644
--- a/src/strings/strings.go
+++ b/src/strings/strings.go
@@ -1085,8 +1085,9 @@ func trimRightUnicode(s, cutset string) string {
 	return s
 }
 
-// TrimSpace returns a slice of the string s, with all leading
-// and trailing white space removed, as defined by Unicode.
+// TrimSpace returns a slice (substring) of the string s,
+// with all leading and trailing white space removed,
+// as defined by Unicode.
 func TrimSpace(s string) string {
 	// Fast path for ASCII: look for the first ASCII non-space byte.
 	for lo, c := range []byte(s) {